On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Vandaman vandaman2002-sk@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
[base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1
[centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2
Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is > 10 and based on your preference)
I did not write/suggest that particular part (but that does not really matter).
If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't those also potentially overwrite each other if the same package exists in all of them?
Who has got several 3rd party repos and what are your yum priority for those?
One of my systems have these entries:
rpmforge.repo:priority=40 kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo:priority=50 kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo:priority=50 atrpms.repo:priority=85 epel.repo:priority=90 CentOS-Testing.repo:priority=99 .... (not a complete list)
I do use different sets of numbers depending on what a given system runs. In addition to the priority scores, use of exclude= etc is also important if you aim at getting certain packages from a repository of your choice.
Akemi