On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:59 -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > #1) Easy way to know where a package came from. > > For example, as far as I am aware, I cannot query anything that tells > me X packages are from Y repo. If I were to become a 100% always > enabled updates-testing, most of my packages would be from that repo, > however if I only do it occasionally I'd just have to remember yum list installed pkgname it will tell you where a package was installed from in the right hand column after the @ symbol. > > #2 ) Easy way to downgrade if I were to run into problems > > I understand that this isn't foolproof, and that for some issues > (some huge glibc error) my system could conceivably require advanced > knowledge to boot into a rescue mode, download packages and force the > downgrade. However some way to view the updates-testing packages I > have installed, and downgrade to the 'released' version would be > awesome. yum downgrade pkgname it's not perfect but it's not bad also: yum history undo for a specific transaction: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory > > #3) Reminders > > Knowing which packages I have installed that I have yet to provide > karma for. Nothing too insane as I know that if updates-testing was > installed and I always installed everything from it, there are lots of > packages I couldn't really know if they worked or had regressions. So > alongside this feature would be a way to have a whitelist or blacklist > of packages I want to test or ignore. fedora-easy-karma > > #4) Easy way to update the karma on packages I've installed fedora-easy-karma > > I've heard of fedora-easy-karma, and it likely does what I want, but > I think it needs to be integrated into a complete tool that includes # > 1 & 2. it does. yum --setopt can be your friend too - check out the yum man page -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
