On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:32 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:14 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
>
> > I looked at the yum updating page:
> > >
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> > >
> > > but from what I gather, it would replace F8 with F9 repos.
> > > I would like to have both, if possible.
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > Why?
>
> So I can keep what I have set for myself,
> take advantage of F9 "tweaks\essential" updates.
> Without doing the whole backup restore thing.
I think you'll find that most of the F9 packages depend on different
versions of essential libraries, so it's not really practical. Recently
I tried updating Evolution from Rawhide and yum wanted to change over
100 other packages. Naturally I declined.
poc
You should be able to pull in specific rpms using:
yum --enablerepo=development install whatever