[Yum] command line server selection

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Sep 23 21:49:26 UTC 2003


> Basically I am a lazy guy so I try and use yum whenever I can as I cannot
> be asked to sort out dependancies. I normally only want my system to be
> updated with the packages in /9/updates. For this yum works fine. But if I
> want to apply a package from rawhide eg evolution 1.4.4, I have to
> un-comment the rawhide lines from the yum.conf file
> run yum -y update evolution*
> what for the update and all dependancies to finish
> then recomment out rawhide in yum.conf.
> 

use two config files - one w/rawhide one w/o

then specify them via yum -c some.conf command

-sv





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