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[Mark Bidewell]

Mea Culpa Yes I forgot about the group* commands  that would do what I
wanted.  Thanks

On 11/5/07, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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