On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 13:30 -0400, Douglas Kilpatrick wrote:
> I'm trying to write a plugin to make it easier to manage packages on a
> host. The basic idea is that each host has a per-host package that has
> as it's requirements things I need the host to support.
>
>ie:
>foo.oppositelo
I'm using the package name (if package name equals host name) to
recognize that the package is special. So I can certainly recurse
through it's requirements. I just don't see a downgrade() call in
yum. Where should I look?
what ver of yum? I'm looking at the code here and there is a downgra
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Douglas Kilpatrick wrote:
Seth Vidal wrote:
Now, yum will not automatically downgrade pkgs as a depresolving step -
it's generally a bad idea anyway b/c it could very well mean downgrading
into a security whole or walking to backward incompatible versions of
things. No
Seth Vidal wrote:
Now, yum will not automatically downgrade pkgs as a depresolving step -
it's generally a bad idea anyway b/c it could very well mean downgrading
into a security whole or walking to backward incompatible versions of
things. No fun.
In my experience in large systems, much more
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Douglas Kilpatrick wrote:
I'm trying to write a plugin to make it easier to manage packages on a host.
The basic idea is that each host has a per-host package that has as it's
requirements things I need the host to support.
ie:
foo.oppositelock.org-1.0-.noarch.rpm
