Dumb Question

[Benjamin Smith]

Thanks! 

Is there a way for me to do a query and see what RPMs are installed that are 
testing? I see many packages marked as "legacy" but how would I know which 
ones are released and which aren't? 

-Ben 

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 18:51, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> Quoting Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com>:
> 
> > I'd like to get & check out updates that have not been approved.
> 
> Great!  We could use the help testing them.
> 
> > How do I set up the yum.conf on my FC1 system to get these updates?
> 
> Assuming you know how yum.conf works, it should be fairly easy.  I don't
> use FC1, so I'm not sure of the details.  But if there is a single yum.conf
> then it would be the same as RHL and would be fairly easy to setup.
> 
> Edit your yum.conf, and search on "updates-testing" (but without the 
quotes).
> 
> If there is already an entry for the updates-testing, then you are all set.
> If there is one, but it is commented out, then uncomment and you are all 
set.
> If there is not one, then you will need to add an stanza for it.
> 
> To add it, add the following to your yum.conf:
> 
> [updates-testing]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever updates-testing
> 
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/updates-testing/$basearch
> 
> Then you should be all set.
> 
> You might also want to see:
> 
> http://www.fedoralegacy.org/wiki/index.php/MultipleYumConf
> 
> which tells you how you can have two configuration files (one without
> updates-testing, one with updates-testing, and then switch between them).
> 
> If you need more help then the above, just ask.
> 
> > -Ben
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> > Then I realized I am somebody"
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