Description of problem: When there is a broken update in testing, I will typically want to exclude the entire build in the yum configuration. Currently, the only way to achieve this is to write one or more name globs that match all packages of the build and no others, which can become messy for cases like https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F15/FEDORA-2011-11526. Yum should have a kind of exclude pattern that is matched against the SOURCERPM tag NVR for binary packages (may as well not make the user deal with the .src.rpm suffix) and the ordinary NVR for source packages, to make it easy to exclude entire builds. A possible syntax is to prefix the pattern with "build:", e.g.: exclude=build:gcc-4.6.1-8.fc15 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.29-9.fc15
I hoped that my patch for bug 734249 would automatically make "exclude=SOURCERPM=gcc-4.6.1-8.fc15.src.rpm" work, but found that exclusion takes an entirely different code path. It would take some refactoring to have the necessary info available in all the necessary places in sqlitesack.py to do the exclusion. At least now I can paste the output of "repoquery --plugins -qa SOURCERPM=gcc-4.6.1-8.fc15.src.rpm" into the exclude line in yum.conf.
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