updates, updates-testing and comps

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Jun 1 19:42:37 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2007 15:26:53 Hans de Goede wrote:
>> So lets say I put blobAndConquer, a new package which I've submitted
>> through bodhi today in comps-f7.xml.in, and that comps gets rebuild from
>> this. Then yes, people with updates-testing enabled will be able to install
>> it, but people without updates-testing enabled, will see it to and get an
>> error that it isn't available when trying to install it. Not very pretty if
>> you ask me.
> 
> No they wont.  Yum is smart enough to not display a comps item if it isn't in 
> the repos.  That's how we get away with listing say ppc only packages in 
> comps and people on !ppc don't see a package they can't install.
> 

Ah, ok, and the same goes for pirut (I assume it uses yum)?

Regards,

Hans





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