how to "yum update" to something in the development repo?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat May 27 08:26:35 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:34 -0400, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 May 2006, anthony baldwin wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Paul Howarth wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 15:26 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>>  on my FC5 system, i currently have make-3.80-10.2 and want to
> >>>> upgrade to make-3.81 out of [development].  so i tried:
> >>>>
> >>>>  # yum --enablerepo=development update make
> >>>>
> >>>> and was told there is no match.  am i misunderstanding the protocol
> >>>> for updating out of rawhide?  i surfed over to development and the rpm
> >>>> is certainly there.
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> Curious. Your exact command, pasted into a shell, worked fine for me
> >>> here.
> >>>
> >>> Paul.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>       
> >> Perhaps you (the original poster) need to add a repo that Paul has
> >> but you´re missing?
> >>     
> >
> > ok, that's just plain weird.  suddenly, it shows up in my list of
> > possible updates with *exactly* the same command as before.  (and i
> > mean *exactly* since i used shell history to grab it.)
> >
> > strange.
> >
> > rday
> Lose the = between enablerepo and development.

Why? "man yum" has the "="...

Paul.




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