Dave Pawson wrote:
On 2 May 2010 16:59, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There's still a missing piece in this information if you use 3rd party
repositories and want to duplicate a system. You don't know what repository
any package came from.
Oops. Yep. If I can export/save my list of repos (and their keys?)
That would provide the sources for the packages surely?
I'm (almost) more bothered about the packages I installed
manually! Being sloppy, I didn't record the list.
Yum will pick the highest revision number package available from the configured
and enabled repositories - and also bring its dependencies. But that can be
wrong in cases where you use 3rd party repos to get one or a few packages that
are newer than the distribution base and these repos also contain additional
newer packages that you don't want to override the base - or cause conflicts
with packages from other repositories. That's probably not so much of a problem
with fedora as it is with Centos where the base packages are fairly old and
there is more reason to need some newer ones.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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