[CentOS] yum-plugin-priorities

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 08/15/2013 01:07 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:07:26PM +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Clint Dilks wrote:
>>
>>>> If I add
>>>>    priority=1
>>>> to [updates] in CentOS-Base.repo
>>>> when I run "sudo yum update" I get the warning
>>>>    66 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>>>>
>
>>> See http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities ( take a close
>>> look at section 5 )
>>
>> Thanks for your response.
>> I had actually read this section, but evidently do not understand it.
>> I take it the 66 packages mentioned are in "unofficial" repositories,
>> in my case rpmforge.repo.rpmnew ?
>>
>
> If you have a repo called something.repo.rpmnew, it will be ignored.
> You would have to rename it to something.repo.
>
>
> To oversimplify, say that you have rpmforge, base, and epel repos.  Say
> that all of them have versions of perl.  However, these versions may
> conflict with each other and break things.
>
> So, if you gave base and updates priority of 1, then the others, even if
> they have a later version of perl, won't install it.  The downside is that
> you're running the older version.  The upside is that you don't risk this
> newer version of perl breaking some other package that you'd forgotten.
>
> There are disadvantages--as the wiki page in question mentions, the late
> Seth Vidal disliked it.
>

Warning: If you set priority of base repo to 1, and priority of updates 
repo (or all others) to 2, then packages in updates repository will be 
hidden. that is why it is so important to have same priority on both 
base and updates repositories.

Any package name that exists in 2 or more repositories will be hidden 
from repositories with higher number / lesser priority (just like those 
66 in your case). Example:

httpd.x86_64 => ver. 2.2.15-26.el6.centos in base
httpd.x86_64 => ver  2.2.15-28.el6.centos in updates
httpd.x86_64 => ver. 2.2.15-29.el6.centos in updates

With priority plugin: base=1, updates=2 (or nothing)
2 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Available:
httpd.x86_64 => ver. 2.2.15-26.el6.centos from base

With priority plugin: base=1, updates=1 (same priority)
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Available:
httpd.x86_64 => ver. 2.2.15-29.el6.centos from updates


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