Re: yum - lack of features

["William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 earthlink net>]

Adam Gibson wrote:
> I wish yum supported excludes per repository for that reason.  I
> sometimes want to use a repository but dont want that 3rd party repo to
> ever update some core packages.  Placing an excludes in a section for a
> specific repo doesn't seem to work.

WORKSFORME.  Perhaps you can provide details on what doesn't seem to work
for you?

> It would be nice to have the opposite
> of that too so that you could state that only the packages I list here
> should be updated from this specific repository(sometimes you just want a
> few packages from a certian repo.

That's what "includepkgs" is for.

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William Hooper