I am not sure if this exists with yum now or not. My experience has been if something has been around for a while it usually doesn't break things. Or maybe the correct thing to say is that if it does break things then there is a newer version fairly soon. So is there a way to say that I only want updates that are 2 weeks old? Jerry Williams > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-devel-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jesse Keating > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:50 PM > To: fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: F11 Proposal: Stabilization > > On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 17:42 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > > > > Right - in some of these cases the last bit "pull in whatever else you > > need" is the same as 'twist the firehose nozzle all the way as far as it > > will go, hold tight!' > > Hardly. Much of the time updates are pretty self contained and > independent of other updates. Just because I want say pidgin updated > doesn't mean I have to get OpenOffice.org updated too, or just because I > want newer emacs doesn't mean I have to get newer eclipse+java, so on > and so forth. There really is a difference between targeted updates > +deps and the firehose. > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
