On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:24 +0100, Sven Lankes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 06:13:18PM -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > > >> Maybe you want: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kde* ?? > > > Yes, is this the suggested way to test kde4.4 from updates-testing? > > No - installing single packages or package sets from updates-testing has > the potential to break things. updates-testing is all or nothing - so: > > yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update This doesn't look right to me, because 1) using "... update kde*" will also pull in any dependencies that KDE needs from updates-testing, so you don't need anything else. 2) not restricting yourself to kde* (and its dependencies) increases the risk of a flaky system because you're updating a bunch of stuff you don't care about. It can then be hard to back out to *not* using updates-testing for every future update. I used the "... update kde*" incantation and it worked fine for me. poc
