Re: yum plugins: whiteout/blacklilst

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> What do the whiteout and blacklist plugins do?
>> 
>> For example, on an x86_64 installation, if I get some dependency problems 
>> with installed package (i386) because I'm trying to update the x86_64 
>> version of this package, can these plugins help?
>> 
> I tried putting a package name in these files but it just says "Parse error"
>
> What is the expected format to make entries in the whiteout and blacklist 
> files?
>

the plugins were developed for preupgrade and tied into anaconda - best to 
ask those developers.

I think will woods in particular.

-sv