[PlanetCCRMA] yummy fix to installing planetccrma-core-* packages on fc5

[J. Joseph Benavidez]

Hi Fernando,

This looks pretty cool. I've got some questions though. (see below)

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 2:58 pm, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> Hi all. I have just released an updated version of yum that adds a new
> option to its configuration file. This enables yum to install older
> kernels than the latest already installed, and fixes the problem Planet
> CCRMA users were having when installing Planet CCRMA kernels _after_
> updating to the latest Fedora kernel.
>
> If you have already installed Planet CCRMA doing "yum install yum"
> should get the newest version.
>
> After installing it add the following line to /etc/yum.conf
>
> ----
> oldpackage=1
> ----

Can this be set per-repo, or only global?

Not so much a question, but a thought... could the patch be modified so that 
oldpackage takes glob arguments like the exclude variable? The exclude 
variable can be set globally and/or per-repo, plus you can specify specific 
packages. In this case, I suppose you would list all the packages for which 
you would want an older version.

eg

[planetccrma]
..
..
oldpackage=kernel*

Would install the older kernel from planet ccrma, but possibly get newer 
versions of packages that in the extras repo.

(Not having seen the yum internals, I don't know how feasible this change is.)

j.joseph

p.s. Just want to also add my thanks for providing this great repository!



>
> and "yum install planetccrma-core" should work fine.
>
> Read the complete instructions for new users in the Planet CCRMA site
> Fedora Core 5 install instructions.
>
> Enjoy!
> -- Fernando
>
>
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