[Fedora-packaging] Java naming scheme

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Jan 19 01:07:20 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:05 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?

Yep. I'm pretty sure that's what he's looking to do.

~spot




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