using yum to explore different versions of fedora

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri Jul 16 20:21:24 UTC 2010


On 07/17/2010 01:27 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to use yum to check on packages for different versions of 
> fedora than the one being used?
>   

Yum in recent versions accepts a --releasever argument which might do
what you want.  For example,   I can run yum --releasever=12 search foo
while running say Fedora 13.

Rahul


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