[WBEL-users] Issues to yum / WBEL

[Alex Tkachenko]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 17:09, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> On Saturday 07 August 2004 01:26, Alex Tkachenko wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 10:11, Jeremy Bowers wrote:
> > > >Infos:
> > > >
> > > >Yum.conf
> > > >[main]
> > > >cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > > >debuglevel=2
> > > >logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > > >pkgpolicy=newest
> > > >distroverpkg=whitebox-release
> > > >tolerant=1
> > > >exactarch=1
> > > >retries=20
> > > >failovermethod=roundrobin
> > > >gpgcheck=1
> > > >exclude=kernel*
> > >
> > > exclude=kernel* MIGHT have something to do with it......
> >
> > My bet - it has not.
> 
> But it does ;) Uncomment this and it should work fine.
First of all - I don't have that line at all. Second - kernel-smp was
successfully upgraded, whereas to upgrade up kernel I had to clean the
old packages. Third - I've seen the warning from yum-arch 'ignoring the
older package' (or alike) regarding to the latest one. And the last -
how about php case I have mentioned?

Thanks,
Alex
> 
> > General question: why keep older packages in the yum repo, if you can't
> > install it through yum anyway, only the latest one?
> 
> To satisfy dependencies for certain packages and to support people who for 
> some reason can't/won't upgrade.