On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:46 PM, James Antill <james-yum@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Gerhardus Geldenhuis <gerhardus.geldenhuis@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Alternatively if you are using Redhat 5.4/Centos 5.4 or another OS >> that does not yet have the latest yum available, then the plugin must >> be obtained manually from the current git repository for yum which is >> http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb. > > The latest version, sure. But you can get an older version with the > older name "yum install yum-versionlock". > > [...] > >> The plugin will only work for yum versions 2.3.3 and later > > I'm not sure anyone uses anything older than 2.4.x anymore. > > [...] > > Apart from those minor bits it looks great. > > -- This started out to be a "quick" update, but I will rather do it well :-) I do hope I have covered all bases now, thanks for your patience and feedback. The man page for yum-versionlock(latest release) does not specify the format of the versionlock.list file, it is specified in the README file but I believe it makes more sense to live in the man page. I will modify this and send a diff to the list a bit later. I don't do this often so would appreciate if you could let me know with which flags you want the diff run with. I have removed any reference to minimum versions and re-arranged the text slightly: Q4. second bullet Another way to pin package "foo" to a certain version is to use the versionlock plugin. If you are using the latest Fedora (12) then the plugin can be installed using yum install yum-plugin-versionlock To add files that you want version locked, use the following yum command: yum versionlock <package-name> you can also use wildcards yum versionlock <package-name>-* The config file uses the following format: EPOCH:NAME-VERSION-RELEASE.ARCH which can be obtained using: rpm -q <package name> --queryformat "%{EPOCH}:%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n " If no EPOCH is specified in the package, then the number will be 0. Alternatively if you are using Redhat 5.4/Centos 5.4 or another OS that does not yet have the latest yum available you can use yum install yum-versionlock. This version of the plug-in does not extend flags that you can pass to yum and the lock list must be edited manually. For a manual install the source can be obtained from the current git repository for yum which is http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb. The files you need will be found in the yum-utils/plugins/versionlock part of the git tree. Copy versionlock.py to /usr/lib/yum-plugins/versionlock.py Copy versionlock.conf to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.conf Create /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/versionlock.list All files should be root.root with 644 permissions. Regards -- Gerhardus Geldenhuis _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
