Re: Fedora 8, Limited updates to F9 Release, Possible?

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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:29 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:32 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:14 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> >> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I looked at the yum updating page:
> >> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> >> > > 
> >> > > but from what I gather, it would replace F8 with F9 repos.
> >> > > I would like to have both, if possible.
> >> > > 
> >> > > Frank
> >> > > 
> >> > Why?
> >> 
> >> So I can keep what I have set for myself,
> >> take advantage of F9 "tweaks\essential" updates.
> >> Without doing the whole backup restore thing.
> > 
> > I think you'll find that most of the F9 packages depend on different
> > versions of essential libraries, so it's not really practical. Recently
> > I tried updating Evolution from Rawhide and yum wanted to change over
> > 100 other packages. Naturally I declined.
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> 
> You should be able to pull in specific rpms using:
> yum --enablerepo=development install whatever

Which is equivalent to what I did, i.e. updating from Rawhide. See my
previous reply.

poc

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