Package pinning/filtering (was: Freshrpms.net concerns.)
Dag Wieers
dag at wieers.com
Mon Nov 10 05:04:17 UTC 2003
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Jonathan C. Sitte wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> | Not aiming at a complete list, but gaim, gstreamer, gthumb, nmap,
> | sylpheed, yum, probably a few more. There are users who refuse to use a
> | repository when it updates packages included within the core distribution.
>
> I would be one of those users.
Then you would be one of those users that would beg for a decent
pinning/filtering mechanism in yum, apt or up2date. Like I do.
apt has a pinning/filtering mechanism, but it is very difficult to use and
doesn't allow everything that makes sense.
pinning/filtering could also be used for upgrading a distribution without
relying on increased epoch/version/release numbers.
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