Ideas for a new Fedora apt/yum/up2date hierarchy

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Oct 5 16:22:25 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 18:59, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> I was thinking. I do not always need to update to the latest versions of 
> software "for the hell of it" especially if it is something I do not use 
> much. But some things, like security updates I like to keep up to date 
> with, pun not intended. So, I am proposing an idea for Fedora's 
> repository heirarchy. 

This might have already been mentioned but:


if you setup a comps.xml/yumgroups.xml file with the groups put together
in the subgroups that you want you can run:

yum groupupdate 'some group'

and do exactly what you suggested.

-sv






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