[Yum] Platform identification for updates hosted on YUM repo...

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 04:38 -0600, Amit Laxmikant Pande wrote:
> Have a basic question : 
> 
> 
> When updates (patches as well as packages) are hosted on a YUM
> repository, how do we know to which platforms these updates are
> applicable ? 
> 
> 
> For example, how can I know  that the updates hosted are meant for
> openSuse 10.3 or OpenSuse 11.0 or  Fedora ? 
> 
> 

You cannot. Packages, depending on how they are built, could work for
all 3 or none of the above.

Normally, you know which distro they are for by:
1. which repo they live in
2. the dependencies they require

What is it you're trying to do? Maybe there is another way of going
about it.

-sv