Re: [webmin-l] Software Packages Module

[Craig W. <cra...@az...>]

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 10:43 +1000, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 23:05, Craig White wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 22:36 +1000, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > > Hi James,
> > > Is it possible to have YUM look in all the configured repositories
> > > for a specified package? It would seem to me that this would be better
> > > than needing to tell it which one to look in ... unless the same package
> > > exists on more than one repository?
> > > 
> > > As you can see, I am not really much of a YUM expert :)
> > > 
> > ----
> > it's possible (and likely) to have yum repos listed in yum.conf or
> > better these days, in their own files in /etc/yum.repos.d/WHATEVER.repo
> > 
> > and have 'enabled=0' in the configuration for that repo.
> > 
> > Then running from a command line (or I would presume from yumex) you
> > could install a package just from that repo with the enablerepo=XXXXX in
> > the same command line - i.e.
> > 
> > yum enablerepo=dag install xmms-mp3
> > 
> > and yet still have dag repo disabled so it is not involved in commands
> > such as 'yum update' or 'yum upgrade' because yes, sometimes the same
> > packages - often varying levels of stability exist in multiple
> > repositories. In fact most of the time now, they are including the
> > 'testing' branch of the repositories in the yum.repos section (disabled
> > of course) which would cause havoc if enabled by average user.
> 
> Hi Craig,
> I see how that option could be useful now, and I will add support for it
> in the next version of Webmin on systems that have any disabled
> repositories.
> 
> Which version of YUM was it first introduced in though? On my Fedora 2
> system YUM doesn't seem to support that enablerepo= option.
----
not entirely sure 'which' version but the yum in FC-3 definitely has
it...
$ rpm -q yum
yum-2.2.2-0.fc3

as does CentOS 4.x
# rpm -q yum
yum-2.2.1-1.centos4

My guess would be somewhere around 2.2

http://devel.linux.duke.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/yum/ChangeLog?
rev=1.52&view=auto

Craig


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