SV: [Yum] Selective update

[Uwe Kubosch]

> > 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

Thanks, it worked OK.  The dependencies I expected were not there.
postgresql required postgresql-server, but not postgresql-lib.  Strange.


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