On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Marc Riddle wrote: > I have a couple questions that I have been unable to find the answer > to, and am hoping someone here could shed some light on for me. > > I have a yumgroups.xml file that contains several groups, one of which > is a group called 'baseline'. The goal of this group is for it to > contain a list of all packages that I need a specific version of > installed. For example, the current (testing) config looks something > like this: [...] > Unfortunately, this isn't working as desired... Yumgroups can't be used for that. > The two questions that I have are: > > How can I specify a specific version of a package and have yum update > to that version, but not a newer version, even if a newer version > exists in one of my repositories? When I run 'yum groupupdate > baseline' with the above config, yum want to update the kernel package > to 2.6.10-somerel, although 2.6.9-1.11_FC2 exists in one of my > repositories. I originally had > > <packagereq type="mandatory" version="2.6.9-1.11_FC2">kernel</packagereq> > > which didn't work either. The current version is based on a look at > the dtd, which appears to want 'ver' and 'rel' strings, rather than > 'version'. One more thing to point out is that the epoch for this > package is null, I saw that the epoch could be specified in the > packagereq, but am assuming that not specifying it should work in this > case. Yum itself has no such functionality but with yum >= 2.3.3 you can use "versionlock" plugin (from yum-utils) to achieve this: http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yum-utils/plugins/versionlock/ Enable it and run 'rpm -qa > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list' and yum wont update any packages in that list beyong their versions on the system. The list can be of course generated from packages in a directory, hand edited or whatever. > > Also, I am trying to find the correct syntax to have yum update a > package to the newest version if that package is already installed on > a machine, and ignore it if it's not currently installed. I'm not sure > if yum can currently do this from within a group, but it seems like a > reasonable piece of functionality. 'yum update <somepackage>' works at least with yum 2.3.4 and I'd suppose with older versions as well. - Panu -
