[Yum] Documentation Questions and Updates

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
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>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Gerhardus Geldenhuis wrote:
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>>>> The centos man pages on yum and associated packages still contains old
>>>> links to  http://linux.duke.edu/yum/ which goes to page not found.
>>>> Thus this need to be re-pointed to http://yum.baseurl.org ? I have not
>>>> yet checked the source code for the man pages because
>>>> git clone git://yum.baseurl.org/yum-docs.git times out for me.
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>>> I can't do anything about what centos ships in their pkgs.
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>> True, I should have been a bit more clear. As I understand CentOS will
>> get packages from Redhat which will get packages from Fedora which
>> will get packages from the creators. If the creator source package is
>> correct then the changes just needs to filter through. Reason being
>> why I wanted to check the source man pages.
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> the centos yum pkg is from centos5 which is from rhel5 which is from an
> older yum. It's likely that pkgs' docs didn't get changed after the move.
>

I will follow up the matter with CentOS...

I have just done one FAQ for now as a start:

Q4. second bullet
Another way to pin package "foo" to a certain version is to use the
versionlock plugin obtainable via the yum-utils package or from
http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yum-utils/plugins/versionlock/
provided you are using yum >=2.3.3

After enabling the plugin, create a file called
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list which will be the list of
packages to version lock. The file excepts package names in the form
rpm -q <package name> --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n "
or easier the standard rpm -q <package name> format.




If this meets with your satisfaction I will modify some more questions.

Regards

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Gerhardus Geldenhuis