On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Uwe Kubosch wrote: > Hi all! > > I use yum to keep my systems up-to-date. It is great! Woohoo! > > I use Fedora Core 1, and I would like to stay fairly conservative in my > updates. But I need postgresql 7.4 which is not available in any of the FC1 > repositories. It is, however, available in FC2 test1 (1.90). > > What is the best strategy for updating one specific package with the > required dependencies from FC2, but generally stay with the stable FC1 > distribution? Assuming 'development/FC2Test1' binaries work with FC1 - I would create a new config file /etc/yum.conf.development - with the entry for development repository. Now to install postgresql (and its required dependencies) I would do: yum -c /etc/yum.conf.development update postgresql Satish
