[Yum] Selective update

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Uwe Kubosch wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> I use yum to keep my systems up-to-date.  It is great!  Woohoo!
> 
> I use Fedora Core 1, and I would like to stay fairly conservative in my
> updates.  But I need postgresql 7.4 which is not available in any of the FC1
> repositories.  It is, however, available in FC2 test1 (1.90).
> 
> What is the best strategy for updating one specific package with the
> required dependencies from FC2, but generally stay with the stable FC1
> distribution?

Assuming 'development/FC2Test1' binaries work with FC1 - I would
create a new config file /etc/yum.conf.development - with the entry
for development repository.

Now to install postgresql (and its required dependencies) I would do:

yum -c /etc/yum.conf.development update postgresql

Satish