[packager interface suggestion] Adding packages to buildroot directly from updates-testing

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Dec 20 21:15:10 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 22:07 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> mån 2010-12-20 klockan 15:58 -0500 skrev seth vidal:
> 
> > So you want contingency fall-through deps?
> 
> > ie: BuildRequires: foo = 1.1.1 (but if that's not available foo =
> > 1.0.0)?
> 
> No, not quite. 
> 
> pull in foo-1.1.1 from updates-testing if the requirement can not be
> satisfied from updates. Applied recursively.
> 

So you want to give updates-testing preferential value over updates
despite their being no e-v-r difference between the pkgs? If so - you
can do that now with yum's cost value.

-sv




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