[Fedora-packaging] Java naming scheme

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Jan 19 01:05:26 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:59 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> David Lutterkort wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:11 -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> >> seth vidal wrote:
> >>> why do you need a 'groupexclude' option? I guess I don't understand the
> >>> use case for it, yet.
> >>>
> >> For instance, to upgrade one's Fedora system without interfering with 
> >> the Java stack there.
> > 
> > What happens to your Java stack at that point ? Will it just stay
> > frozen ?
> > 
> 
> That is the idea, update your Fedora system except for the Java 
> packages, which you can update selectively, from a different repo, from 
> local RPMs etc.
> 

so you want --groupexclude to exclude from the update all packages in
that group? Not exclude the group from the list of available groups?

-sv





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