Re: another question about installing version specific rpms using yum

Edward Bailey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
We are thinking about that approach. We have anywhere from 3-10 releases per
service pack so the process could get unwieldy. I think we are going to try
this out tomorrow.

Thanks

Ed

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Edward, you could also use 3 repositories to handle 3 versions of the same
> rpm. You would just replace oldest version with the newest one, without
> tuching other 2.
>
> The you could just disable other two (or one with the highest version)
> repositories and yum would see only desired one.
>
> Ljubomir
>
>
>
> seth vidal wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 15:41 -0500, Edward Bailey wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for your time - that is too bad since we are tied to RHEL4 for
>>> the foreseeable future. The exclude option did work but that could
>>> turn into a issue given the number of rpms our custom code requires.
>>>
>>
>>
>> You could work on a plugin to handle it - but - still you're right it's
>> just not going to be elegant.
>>
>>
>> You could also try any of the ports of yum 3.2.X to rhel4 from the
>> centos folks. Can't promise they'll handle everything but it is worth a
>> shot.
>>
>> -sv
>>
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