Upgrade packages from one channel on command-line

[Pascal Bleser]

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Monkey 9 wrote:
> Pascal Bleser schreef:
>> linux_learner wrote:
>>> On 9/12/06, Schlodty <schlodty at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to upgrade only the packages from one channel (e.g.
>>>> suse-update) from the command-line? How is the command? Thank you
>>>>
>>> Sure. smart upgrade --update <name of channel>
>>>
>> That's a totally different thing, it just updates the repository
>> metadata for that channel.
>>
>> Unfortunately there's no way to do that with smart, although it would be
>> a very useful feature.
>
> Workaround would be disable the channels you do not want to use..

Not quite. The problem is, upgrading a package may require upgrades or
additional packages from other channels.

It must really be implemented specifically as a feature in the
UpgradePolicy (AFAICT): smart needs to have all the channels, but only
elect upgrades from the one or more channels you selected for
considering upgrades.

e.g. if I say (let me pick a SUSE example ;))
  smart upgrade --only-from=guru
and in the "guru" repository there's a newer amarok package that
requires a newer libxine1 package from the "packman" repository, then I
want it to be upgraded as well.
If you just disable all the other channels, the amarok upgrade will fail
because no channel provides the needed libxine1 version.

cheers
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