2010/2/17 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>: > 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 > > 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. Well. Not true. Whatever is in updates-testing, you should care of. Most updates are bugfixes and come in 99.99% of the cases into updates anyways. And you can easily back out by disabling the updates-testing repo. Nothing brakes, no problem with future updates. We're not speaking of enabling rawhide for some updates. That will give you headaches at some point. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium
