[Fedora-packaging] Java naming scheme

Fernando Nasser fnasser at redhat.com
Fri Jan 19 15:45:06 UTC 2007


Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 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.
> 

Correct.




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