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

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:43:37PM -0400, David Asher wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, nice trick. I wished the wiki was up, so this could be added. :)

> 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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