On 01/16/2014 09:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic centos@plnet.rs wrote:
How do you see this working for a package that is not in EPEL when you install it from some lower-priority 3rd party repo, but is subsequently added to EPEL with a higher version number and an incompatible configuration?
- Same as now.
- User changing EPEL repo file adding "exclude=<package>".
- Creating new repo profile that will change EPEL repo file adding
"exclude=<package>".
Would you expect users to do that for every package installed from non-EPEL repos even if they don't currently exist in EPEL or to be alert enough during updates to notice when one has been added into EPEL?. I just wish there were some way that yum could tell you before it updates from a repo different than the one used for the initial install of a package.
That should be request for Yum project, not CentOS, but if we define what we would like, we could even create a yum plugin for that and make a default for any CentOS instalation.