Re: Fedora 8, Limited updates to F9 Release, Possible?

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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




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