[ATrpms-users] excising nrpms from my install...

[David Asher]

I have to say smart is pretty impressive.  Using channel priorities I 
was able to get it to do what I wanted:

$ smart channel --set nrpms priority=-1000
$ smart channel --set rpm-db priority=-1000

The first says nrpms is BAD...  ;-)
The second says whatever I've got installed is worse than the non-nrpms 
channels (even if the version out there is older)

$ smart upgrade

Then smart offers to downgrade all the nrpms packages because they are 
lower priority than the other channels.

Pretty sweet.

Thanks to Gustavo Niemeyer for the handholding required to understand 
the rpm-db priority setting.

David.

john bray wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:55 -0400, David Asher wrote:
>   
>> yep, i can identify the nrpms packages with the .nr extension.  I was 
>> hoping (beyond hope?)  that there was an automatic way to tell smart to 
>> "upgrade" to only packages on currently enabled channels or some such.
>>     
>
> actually, it's sure easy to grab out the nrpms packages.  but, i haven't
> been able to think of a way to feed smart or yum an alternative package
> name to replace them.  ummm...i think that perhaps yum won't replace a
> package that it thinks is older anyhow -- seems i've read that on the
> fedora list.
>
> john
>
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