On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:29 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > 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 Which is equivalent to what I did, i.e. updating from Rawhide. See my previous reply. poc
