Tim Nelson wrote:
Hello fellow CentOS'ers-
I'm trying to install a package from a not-to-be-named
repository (privately operated for some proprietary
software). They currently have a package I need but offer
multiple versions. However, if I simply 'yum install
packagename' it defaults to
Vandaman wrote on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:31:36 + (GMT):
Why would the admin of the un-named repo include two versions
unless one could be an update/bugfix?
So, what? Isn't he entitled to say no to an update if he knows there is a
problem on his setup with it?
Kai
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Kai Schätzl, Berlin,
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Vandaman wrote on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:31:36 + (GMT):
Why would the admin of the un-named repo include two versions
unless one could be an update/bugfix?
So, what? Isn't he entitled to say no to an update if he knows there is a
problem on his setup with it?
Yes,
on 1-7-2009 10:00 AM Kai Schaetzl spake the following:
Vandaman wrote on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:31:36 + (GMT):
Why would the admin of the un-named repo include two versions
unless one could be an update/bugfix?
So, what? Isn't he entitled to say no to an update if he knows there is a
- Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 1-7-2009 10:00 AM Kai Schaetzl spake the following:
Vandaman wrote on Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:31:36 + (GMT):
Why would the admin of the un-named repo include two versions
unless one could be an update/bugfix?
So, what? Isn't he entitled
Scott Silva wrote on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:48:03 -0800:
Yes, but yum needs a little coercion to ignore that update.
You would have to exclude that package after you got the older one installed
so it didn't update.
Of course, but this wasn't the point of V.
Kai
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Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
on 1-6-2009 2:26 PM Tim Nelson spake the following:
Hello fellow CentOS'ers-
I'm trying to install a package from a not-to-be-named repository (privately
operated for some proprietary software). They currently have a package I need
but offer multiple versions. However, if I simply 'yum
Tim Nelson wrote on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:26:17 -0600 (CST):
'yum install packagename'
yum install packagename-version
(whatever convention they use for their packages)
Kai
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Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
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