Repo Suggestion

[Jima]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> Last week I tried moving to updates-testing in order to test latest KDE on
> F7.  The resulting kernel update was mismatched with kernel-devel so I could
> not install the nvidia drivers.  My suggestion is this.  Would it be
> possible to segregate updates according to package type (similiar to the
> SUSE buildservice) or even just along the lines of Desktop (KDE/GNOME/etc
> and deps) and System( kernel etc.)  so testing bleeding edge packages from
> one package group won't break other system packages?

  Not to derail your idea, but is this necessarily anything that `yum 
--enablerepo=updates-testing --exclude=kernel\* upgrade` wouldn't fulfill?
  At this point my brain started muttering something about "hey, wouldn't a 
`yum groupupgrade` command be awesome?"  Which led me to look at the yum 
man page...which fails me.  It only has groupupdate.  *sad panda*
  Seth, would `groupupgrade` be a simple add-on?  Or just pointless?  Not 
sure if obsoletes are important enough...

  So yeah, in summary, I'm guessing `yum --enablerepo=updates-testing 
groupupdate "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"` will do what you want.

      Jima