Re: another question about installing version specific rpms using yum
Edward Bailey <[email protected]>
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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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Yum mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum > _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum