Fedora 8, Limited updates to F9 Release, Possible?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 14:03:26 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:32 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:14 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> 
> > I looked at the yum updating page:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> > > 
> > > but from what I gather, it would replace F8 with F9 repos.
> > > I would like to have both, if possible.
> > > 
> > > Frank
> > > 
> > Why?
> 
> So I can keep what I have set for myself,
> take advantage of F9 "tweaks\essential" updates.
> Without doing the whole backup restore thing.

I think you'll find that most of the F9 packages depend on different
versions of essential libraries, so it's not really practical. Recently
I tried updating Evolution from Rawhide and yum wanted to change over
100 other packages. Naturally I declined.

poc




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