Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> said:
P.S. I don't use enablerepo. I'll yum install a local copy of
the rpm and see
what it needs if it doesn't install successfully.
That seems like extra and unnecessary work. You doesn't do anything
without telling you, so "yum --enablrepo=\*testing update foo" is going
to tell you more about what dependencies are needed than "yum
localinstall foo.rpm".
I install packages from updates-testing all the time; I'll do a "yum
--enablerepo=\*testing check-update" and look for packages that are
"interesting" to me (things that I use that I might would notice a
problem, things that I have already had issues with, etc.). I've found
at least one bug I can remember in a testing package, filed it, and it
got fixed before the release to updates.
I haven't usually given karma though; partly because it isn't easy to
tell what I'm running that came from *testing ("yum list install | grep
testing" isn't very helpful because of pretty-printing for 80 columns,
even on a wider terminal).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.