On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 04:38 -0600, Amit Laxmikant Pande wrote: > Have a basic question : > > > When updates (patches as well as packages) are hosted on a YUM > repository, how do we know to which platforms these updates are > applicable ? > > > For example, how can I know that the updates hosted are meant for > openSuse 10.3 or OpenSuse 11.0 or Fedora ? > > You cannot. Packages, depending on how they are built, could work for all 3 or none of the above. Normally, you know which distro they are for by: 1. which repo they live in 2. the dependencies they require What is it you're trying to do? Maybe there is another way of going about it. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
