howto package kernel-like

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Thu Nov 16 21:17:58 UTC 2006


At 9:40 PM +0100 11/16/06, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>Hi,
>I would like to make a package behaving like the kernel:
>When a new version is available, it installs near the old version, but
>it does not replace the old version.
>Has that kind of package a special name? What keyword or special
>mentions have I got to place in the spec file to get this behaviour?
>Of course, the install name/directory will be different as of the
>versions.
>Thank you.

It's part of yum, not the package.  See "man yum.conf".
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