On Saturday 30 June 2007, Roger Leigh wrote:
Gene Heskett gene.heskett@verizon.net writes:
On Saturday 30 June 2007, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
You should be able to have both versions of Gutenprint installed concurrently. Whether the RPM's are built that way is another matter.
That's my point in the fedora list which I've added to the To: list
But, we're talking about gimp-print-4.2.7-23 over-writing my gutenprint-5.10-6 install with what is to me, broken code for my epson printer(s)
While it's perfectly possible to build both 4.2.7 and 5.0.x from source and install them concurrently, the package dependencies may still prevent it. For example, I don't permit it in Debian; there's just one gimp-print package which was 4.2.7 and is now 5.0.x; I didn't see any added value in allowing use of the old version. However, the shared libraries (libgutenprint1 and libgutenprint2) can still be installed side-by-side.
Whether or not this is possible in Fedora depends upon how they decided to package it. I'm not familiar with Fedora, so I would suggest checking the package contents and dependencies to figure out why.
That means I have to get the package to my machine. Is there such a command that will cause yum to download only?
At least in Debian, the GIMP package is built without printing support (no gimp-print 4.2.x dependencies) and then the Print plugin from Gutenprint is used to provide printing support.
Which is exactly how it should be. I've NDI why fedora chose to do it their way and screw it up royally. Perhaps someone from fedora can offer a cogent, sensible reason?
Thanks Roger.
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:10:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Whether or not this is possible in Fedora depends upon how they decided to package it. I'm not familiar with Fedora, so I would suggest checking the package contents and dependencies to figure out why.
That means I have to get the package to my machine. Is there such a command that will cause yum to download only?
man yum shows:
command is one of: * install package1 [package2] [...] * update [package1] [package2] [...] * check-update * upgrade [package1] [package2] [...] * remove | erase package1 [package2] [...] * list [...] * info [...] * provides | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [...] * clean [ packages | headers | metadata | cache | dbcache | all ] * makecache * groupinstall group1 [group2] [...] * groupupdate group1 [group2] [...] * grouplist [hidden] * groupremove group1 [group2] [...] * groupinfo group1 [...] * search string1 [string2] [...] * shell [filename] * resolvedep dep1 [dep2] [...] * localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...] * localupdate rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...] * deplist package1 [package2] [...] * repolist [all|enabled|disabled]
would deplist, repolist, info, do the trick?
-Thufir
Gene Heskett wrote:
That means I have to get the package to my machine. Is there such a command that will cause yum to download only?
yumdownloader is part of yum-utils package and would do downloads only. There is a yum plugin for this.
Rahul
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Thufir wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:10:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Whether or not this is possible in Fedora depends upon how they decided to package it. I'm not familiar with Fedora, so I would suggest checking the package contents and dependencies to figure out why.
That means I have to get the package to my machine. Is there such a command that will cause yum to download only?
man yum shows:
command is one of: * install package1 [package2] [...] * update [package1] [package2] [...] * check-update * upgrade [package1] [package2] [...] * remove | erase package1 [package2] [...] * list [...] * info [...] * provides | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [...] * clean [ packages | headers | metadata | cache | dbcache | all ] * makecache * groupinstall group1 [group2] [...] * groupupdate group1 [group2] [...] * grouplist [hidden] * groupremove group1 [group2] [...] * groupinfo group1 [...] * search string1 [string2] [...] * shell [filename] * resolvedep dep1 [dep2] [...] * localinstall rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...] * localupdate rpmfile1 [rpmfile2] [...] * deplist package1 [package2] [...] * repolist [all|enabled|disabled]would deplist, repolist, info, do the trick?
deplist might be educational, but a download only, then let me take it apart and copy what I need with mc would be nice. And I don't see that option above. Darnit.
Thanks, Thufir
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Gene Heskett wrote:
That means I have to get the package to my machine. Is there such a command that will cause yum to download only?
yumdownloader is part of yum-utils package and would do downloads only. There is a yum plugin for this.
Rahul
How is this integrated into yumex? yumex shows the plugin, but no way to control it can be found by me.
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