Fedora 8, Limited updates to F9 Release, Possible?

[Jim Cornette]

Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> 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
>>
> 
> You should be able to pull in specific rpms using:
> yum --enablerepo=development install whatever
> 
> 
> 


A great deal of programs that depend on library upgrades were rebuilt 
for Fedora 9. That is probably the reason why so many programs were 
included for update. A lot of times though it is dangerous to try to 
pull in pieces of Fedora 9 into Fedora 8. For example the X server is 
quite different and versions for Fedora 8 may be later than what is used 
in rawhide, updates testing anyway.

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