On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 08:38, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Vendredi 17 Janvier 2003 02:40, Adam Williamson a �crit : > > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 16:05, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > Le Jeudi 16 Janvier 2003 16:41, Adam Williamson a �crit : > > > > Would it be possible to add an option to urpmi something along the > > > > lines of --preserve-package-set? That is, an option to never replace > > > > packages from one set with packages from another. To illustrate, > > > > mplayer is currently at 0.90-0.rc2.3mdk and 0.90-0.rc2.1plf. urpmi > > > > --auto-select wants to replace my installed plf package with the > > > > "newer" mdk package, but I'd rather keep my mp3-encoding functionality > > > > and just upgrade when a new plf package is available. Could this be > > > > done? > > > > > > See PLF FAQ, question "How do i use urpmi": > > > http://plf.zarb.org/faq.html#question_4 > > > > It might help if you mentioned which section of which of the various > > documents linked to addresses my question. > The FAQ itself, otherwhise i'd given directly the document URL: > As some PLF packages closely follows official Mandrake packages with > additional features (ex: mplayer), urpmi will sometimes propose to upgrade a > package with .mdk version if .plf has not been rebuild yet. In order to avoid > such situation, juste use a regexp in /etc/urpmi/skip.list this way: > /mplayer.*mdk/.
Oh, thanks Guillaume, didn't see that bit for some reason, let me look again...ah yeah. That's useful, and I didn't know skip.list could handle regexp's. It's still just a little annoying to have to do it separately for every package, but it's certainly an adequate solution. Thanks! -- adamw
