Re: Documentation Questions and Updates

Hi

Just wanted to follow up to check if you have received my last update.
I am keen to start work on other questions but would like to get the
first one committed at least.

Best Regards

>On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This started out to be a "quick" update, but I will rather do it well
> :-) I do hope I have covered all bases now, thanks for your patience
> and feedback.
>
> The man page for yum-versionlock(latest release) does not specify the
> format of the versionlock.list file, it is specified in the README
> file but I believe it makes more sense to live in the man page.
> I will modify this and send a diff to the list a bit later. I don't do
> this often so would appreciate if you could let me know with which
> flags you want the diff run with.
>
> I have removed any reference to minimum versions and re-arranged the
> text slightly:
>
> Q4. second bullet
> Another way to pin package "foo" to a certain version is to use the
> versionlock plugin.
>
> If you are using the latest Fedora (12) then the plugin can be
> installed using yum install yum-plugin-versionlock
>
> To add files that you want version locked, use the following yum command:
> yum versionlock <package-name>
> you can also use wildcards
> yum versionlock <package-name>-*
>
> The config file uses the following format:
> EPOCH:NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.ARCH which can be obtained using:
> rpm -q <package name> --queryformat "%{EPOCH}:%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n "
>
> If no EPOCH is specified in the package, then the number will be 0.
>
> Alternatively if you are using Redhat 5.4/Centos 5.4 or another OS
> that does not yet have the latest yum available you can use yum
> install yum-versionlock. This version of the plug-in does not extend
> flags that you can pass to yum and the lock list must be edited
> manually.
>
> For a manual install the source can be obtained from the current git
> repository for yum which is
> http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb.
> The files you need will be found in the yum-utils/plugins/versionlock
> part of the git tree.
> Copy versionlock.py   to /usr/lib/yum-plugins/versionlock.py
> Copy versionlock.conf to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.conf
> Create /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list
> All files should be root.root with 644 permissions.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Gerhardus Geldenhuis
>

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