On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 23:48:47 -0600, Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> said: > > P.S. I don't use enablerepo. I'll yum install a local copy of the rpm and see > > what it needs if it doesn't install successfully. > > That seems like extra and unnecessary work. You doesn't do anything > without telling you, so "yum --enablrepo=\*testing update foo" is going > to tell you more about what dependencies are needed than "yum > localinstall foo.rpm". If things don't work yes. But I would typically be expecting it to work. Also my repo config files all point to local copies, which may or may not be there depending on what I am using. So simple enablerepo won't always work for me. > I install packages from updates-testing all the time; I'll do a "yum So do I. I keep a local mirror and use it by default. > --enablerepo=\*testing check-update" and look for packages that are > "interesting" to me (things that I use that I might would notice a For stuff that interests me, I don't wait for it to show up in updates(-testing)?, but rather pull it from koji. (I spend way too much time looking at koji build lists.) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
