On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:59 -0600, Nathanael Noblet wrote:
#1) Easy way to know where a package came from.
For example, as far as I am aware, I cannot query anything that tells
me X packages are from Y repo. If I were to become a 100% always
enabled updates-testing, most of my packages would be from that repo,
however if I only do it occasionally I'd just have to remember
yum list installed pkgname
it will tell you where a package was installed from in the right hand
column after the @ symbol.
#2 ) Easy way to downgrade if I were to run into problems
I understand that this isn't foolproof, and that for some issues
(some huge glibc error) my system could conceivably require advanced
knowledge to boot into a rescue mode, download packages and force the
downgrade. However some way to view the updates-testing packages I
have installed, and downgrade to the 'released' version would be
awesome.
yum downgrade pkgname
it's not perfect but it's not bad
also:
yum history undo for a specific transaction:
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumHistory
#3) Reminders
Knowing which packages I have installed that I have yet to provide
karma for. Nothing too insane as I know that if updates-testing was
installed and I always installed everything from it, there are lots of
packages I couldn't really know if they worked or had regressions. So
alongside this feature would be a way to have a whitelist or blacklist
of packages I want to test or ignore.
fedora-easy-karma
#4) Easy way to update the karma on packages I've installed
fedora-easy-karma
I've heard of fedora-easy-karma, and it likely does what I want, but
I think it needs to be integrated into a complete tool that includes #
1 & 2.
it does.
yum --setopt can be your friend too - check out the yum man page
-sv