Re: [Yum] Yum Feature Requests
Don't crosspost, it just makes life difficult.
1. Some way to install SRPMs. When you are testing a distro, it
comes quite handy to install the SRPM with a single yum command
when you find a bug and want to look at.
Read the yum list - If someone wants to implement this go for it.
yum-arch -s indexes the src.rpms too. I have some other fish to fry
before I get to this one.
2. A way to force reinstall of a package. If by any chance I get
one of my packages corrupted, the way I do right now is to rpm -e
--nodeps it and then yum install.
no. Again, read the yum list, hard and fast rule, - I won't implement
--force or --nodeps. Darkness lies in that path.
3. A way to find out which repo contains the currently installed
version of a package. It comes quite handy when you want to
install SRPMs. Currently I have to guess, or go around all
repos.
so if #1 were implemented you wouldn't need this one?
4. A way to downgrade a package (say for the moment, that's ok
if
update overrides that).
possibly, but not already planned.
On a side note: Is there any way, to keep updated on both 2.4
and 2.6 kernels? Without renaming one of the to say
kernel2.6-...?
not really. There the same package, two different versions, one of which
is greater, how would you want it to know which sets to look for newer
on?
-sv