Neal Becker wrote:
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
A great deal of programs that depend on library upgrades were rebuilt
for Fedora 9. That is probably the reason why so many programs were
included for update. A lot of times though it is dangerous to try to
pull in pieces of Fedora 9 into Fedora 8. For example the X server is
quite different and versions for Fedora 8 may be later than what is used
in rawhide, updates testing anyway.
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