Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:32 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:14 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: >> > Frank Murphy wrote: >> >> > I looked at the yum updating page: >> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq >> > > >> > > but from what I gather, it would replace F8 with F9 repos. >> > > I would like to have both, if possible. >> > > >> > > Frank >> > > >> > Why? >> >> So I can keep what I have set for myself, >> take advantage of F9 "tweaks\essential" updates. >> Without doing the whole backup restore thing. > > I think you'll find that most of the F9 packages depend on different > versions of essential libraries, so it's not really practical. Recently > I tried updating Evolution from Rawhide and yum wanted to change over > 100 other packages. Naturally I declined. > > poc > You should be able to pull in specific rpms using: yum --enablerepo=development install whatever
