[Fedora-livecd-list] How to ensure minimum versions of packages?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:52:16PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) said: 
> > 
> > Maybe this is a kickstart question, I don't know.
> > 
> > I've discovered that you can't specify versions of packages in the
> > live CD kickstart file, eg the following doesn't work:
> > 
> >   %packages
> >   dhclient >= 4.0.0
> > 
> > For my application I really do need to specify minimum package
> > versions, otherwise users will end up with a live CD that definitely
> > won't work.  Any suggestions about how to enforce this?
> 
> Point the config at a proper repo that has the packages you
> know work?

Such a repo doesn't yet exist.  I'm still working on getting the right
versions into Fedora.

I'll do the "meta RPM" thing as suggested in another reply.  That'll
also let me remove some hackish stuff in the %post script so it's a
win all round.

Rich.

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