[Yum] another question about installing version specific rpms using yum

[Edward Bailey]

We tested out the yum 3.2 rpms from David Hrbac and everything works except
for "yum search" which is too bad since we use "yum search" a lot. I really
appreciate all the work he did to get so much of yum 3.2 back ported to el4.

I guess we are going to have to look into interesting ways to structure your
yum repos like what Ljubomir suggested below.

Ed

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic
<office at plcomputers.net>wrote:

> Edward Bailey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Separate "release" repository from all other repos so you can "inform" all
> yum clients when you add or delete some of the repos. Once you change repo
> structure just issue updated "release" rpm and once that rpm is installed
> yum clients will be able to see new repositories.
>
> That way, you can change complete repo structure except for release repo
> itself any time you want.
>
> Better yet, you could issue updated release rpms with priority repositories
> built-in and in doing so avoid complicated yum commands. Simple "yum update"
> (executed two times consecutively) with properly set release rpm (repo file)
> and installed yum-priorities plugin would do the trick.
>
> Ljubomir
>
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