2010/9/21 Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Michał Piotrowski wrote: >> Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for these that >> wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big >> number. >> >> I'm not a huge fan of huge updates in "stable" Firefox3->Firefox4, >> Kde4.5->Kde4.6 etc. In fact I would prefer to avoid them. But >> sometimes people want this latest and greatest, shiny :) >> >> Setting up "official" backport repo will avoid repos fragmentation. >> Keeping all cool updates in one place appears to be a reasonable idea. >> Am I right? > > How hard would it be to "cherry-pick" from this backports repository? To > install a newer Firefox from there for example, but keep the PostgreSQL from > the ordinary Fedora even if there is a newer one in the backports repository, > and with a simple "yum update" receive bugfixes to PostgreSQL from fedora- > updates and new Firefox versions from the backports repository? > > If the backports repository would be an "all or nothing" thing, or if cherry- > picking would require special tweaking of Yum, then it's a bad idea. yum-plugin-priorities? > > Björn Persson Regards, Michal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
