On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 17:07 -0500, David Ressman wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking through the archives for quite some time and haven't > been able to answer my question, so I thought I'd ask the list. Here's a > little bit of background about my setup and about what I'm trying to > accomplish: > > For various and unpleasant reasons, I'm mirroring the up2date service > for RHEL4 to yum (2.6.1). Functionally speaking, it's set up identically > to the Fedora yum repositories; I've got a "base" repository with the > packages from the original distribution, and whenever I run up2date on > the yum server, it downloads the new RPMs into the "updates" repository > and rebuilds the "updates" repo metadata. > > My problem is that I'd like to be able to upgrade to any version of a > particular package from a lesser version of that package, and not > necessarily the newest version of the package. Here's an example of what > I'm talking about: > > RHAS4(u4) ships with version qt-3.3.3-9.3.x86_64. Since the OS release, > qt has been updated to qt-3.3.3-10.RHEL4.x86_64 and then again to > qt-3.3.3-11.RHEL4.x86_64. As it is now, I've got both of the new qt RPMs > in the updates directory, and the yum metadata files are built accordingly. > > If I'm on a box with qt-3.3.3-9.3.x86_64 installed, and I want to go to > qt-3.3.3-11.RHEL4.x86_64, I can do the following: > > yum install qt-3.3.3-11.RHEL4.x86_64 > yum update qt.x86_64 > etc., etc. > > What I can't figure out how to do is to upgrade to > qt-3.3.3-10.RHEL4.x86_64 once qt-3.3.3-11.RHEL4.x86_64 is added to the > repository. If I do "yum install qt-3.3.3-10.RHEL4.x86_64" or something > similar, I get the "Could not find update match for > qt-3.3.3-10.RHEL4.x86_64" error from cli.py. > > After some digging around, I see that yum is being returned only the > newest version of the qt utility from a call to > rpmUtils.updates.reduceListNewestByNameArch. > > Because of that, this behavior seems very deeply rooted in the yum > update function, and it looks to me like there's not a particularly easy > way to do what I want. If I specifically exclude > "qt-3.3.3-11.RHEL4.x86_64" on the yum command line, > reduceListNewestByNameArch() returns the one I want, but this is very > cumbersome. I don't really want to have to specifically exclude every > package version that's newer than the one to which I want to upgrade. > > Obviously, if I remove qt and then run a "yum install > qt-3.3.3-10.RHEL4.x86_64", it works fine, but that's not a very robust > way to upgrade RPMs. > > Is this a problem that other people have dealt with? I looked to see if > there's something in yum 3.x that would help me out (I'm not really > anxious to upgrade from 2.6), but I don't see anything. Am I stuck with > specifically excluding every other version of the package that happens > to be in the "updates" repo? Is there something simple I'm missing? Short answer: Yes - it doesn't do that for updates. Longer answer: It's something I think it should do and I've put it on the todo list. When and how it gets fixed I'm not sure of at this moment - but it is on the todo list: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumTodo thanks -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
