On 6/13/05, Robin Mordasiewicz robin@bullseye.tv wrote:
Someone suggested that I try yum, which does work, but I am having a heck of a time managing multiple repositories.
It was easy with apt, being able to pin priorities to repositories and packages, but I cannot make yum work as nicely with pinning. I can exclude and such but most of the time it does not work.
You can see from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:lists.dulug.duke.edu+... that this is a subject that comes up frequently on the yum lists. I would recommend you read through some of those posts to get some ideas.
Also, the exclude option in the yum.conf (man yum.conf for more details) and the enablerepo and disablerepo may be precisely what you need.
Some of these features may require a newer version of yum than you have (you didn't say CentOS3 or 4) but you can always pull out yum from cvs if the feature you need is released later.
Greg