On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On 2/27/09, Linux Advocate wrote:
Guys, what is the best way of arranging the repos with regards to their priority? Any ideas, especially for all non base ones?
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo - priority = 1, 2
/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/kbs-extras.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/kbs-misc.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
How would we position dags repo?
Check out this URL: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities
I'm not sure that was the question. I think the OP wants to know in what order he should prioritize all those repos. To which I say: What the heck do you need that many repos for in the first place? Mixing third party repos is usually problematic, even if properly prioritized. It becomes a dependency nightmare.
If you really need those repos, I would install them, but configure them with "enabled=0" and manually enable them on the yum command line only when needed.
Perhaps a little background would help. What services do you need from all of those repos? Are you running a do-everything desktop machine, or servers? Have you considered virtualization as a way to isolate the instances where third party packages are needed?
jeff, your questions have created some clarity for me.