[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.

[Les Mikesell]

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On 2 May 2010 16:59, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> There's still a missing piece in this information if you use 3rd party
>> repositories and want to duplicate a system.  You don't know what repository
>> any  package came from.
> 
> 
> Oops. Yep. If I can export/save my list of repos (and their keys?)
> That would provide the sources for the packages surely?
> 
> I'm (almost) more bothered about the packages I installed
> manually! Being sloppy, I didn't record the list.

Yum will pick the highest revision number package available from the configured 
and enabled repositories - and also bring its dependencies.  But that can be 
wrong in cases where you use 3rd party repos to get one or a few packages that 
are newer than the distribution base and these repos also contain additional 
newer packages that you don't want to override the base - or cause conflicts 
with packages from other repositories.  That's probably not so much of a problem 
with fedora as it is with Centos where the base packages are fairly old and 
there is more reason to need some newer ones.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com