Jay Buffington <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > I know I can give yum a version requirement. For example, this gives > me foo at a version 0.7.8 or newer, which is just what I want: > > $ yum install 'foo >= 0.7.8' > > But say I want to be able to specify a max and a min at the same time. > Something like this: > > $ sudo yum install 'foo <= 0.7.9, >= 0.7.8' There is no command that would accept that atm. ... in theory you could write one as a plugin, however this will almost certainly do the same thing: sudo yum install 'foo <= 0.7.9' ...because yum chooses the highest version available. > Is there any way I can give yum a range of versions that satisfy the > package version I want? If not on the command line could I do it > directly interfacing with the python libraries? With the python API you can pretty much do anything, as at worst you can get a list of all the packages with a given name and then filter them yourself and ask yum "install this package". -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
