source vs. sourcecode

Erik Espinoza erik.espinoza at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 07:14:54 UTC 2004


oops sorry. I meant to mention that the package on rhel use tobe
called openoffice, and became openoffice.org

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:14:19 -0700, Erik Espinoza
<erik.espinoza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't think that yum can pull updates for different names. I know
> yum needed to be manually told to install openoffice.org on many of
> the rhel rebuilds because yum couldn't just handle it on it's own.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:02:36 +0200, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:59, Scott Sloan wrote:
> > > This was pointed out over on fedora-list
> > >
> > > the lastest kernel src package is kernel-sourcecode. Although I can
> > > understand what the package contains, neither apt or yum knew it was an
> > > update to kernel-source.
> >
> > we tested it with yum and yum upgrade pulls the new thing down.
> > The reason is that it's now noarch and yum can't do i386->noarch
> > updates, while with a name change it should work....
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> > signature.asc - 1K
> > noname - 1K Download
> >
>





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