On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:05:40PM +0200, Dag Wieers enlightened us:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 12:20 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Are you using the yum-fastestmirror and yum-priorities plugins (I highly recommend both)?
Does the priorities plugin give the CentOS repositories priority over RPMforge?
Yes it does (when configured)
Can we maybe deliver working yum config files that automatically are fine for the CentOS + RPMforge case when the priority plugin is enabled.
Much like we did with the protectbase plugin.
CentOS would be priority 1, CentOS Extras priority 2 and CentOS Plus priority 3 and RPMforge and others) priority 5 or 10 or whatever (priorityless ?).
Giving Extras something else than 1 would make sure that a human error in Extras would not lead to anything that is hard to turn back. (read: manually)
Making things easier to protect CentOS users (by default) should be our main focus. If people have problems nevertheless, we can assume they knew what they were doing when they changed the default case.
I'd actually vote to make CentOS's main repos start at 2, so that we can use priority 1 for local repos without having to reconfigure all the base .repo files. I currently let puppet do that for me, so it's not a big deal, but I thought I'd throw it out there for consideration.
Matt