On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:27:51PM -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
"The upstream maintainer of yum, Seth Vidal, had the following to say about 'yum priorities' in September 2009:
Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many things about priorities that make me cringe all over. It could just be that it reminds me of apt 'pinning' and that makes me want to hurl."
This note was placed on the wiki (PackageManagement/Yum?Priorities) without any explanation why yum-priorities isn't a good idea.
I use yum-priorities on all boxen that have non-CentOS repos configured; I've not hit a single snag with it yet. YMMV.
yum-priorities doesn't appear in RHEL 5.4 but protectbase does. Is that the better choice and if so why?
It has been pushed out, I believe, to the extras repo and is currently available there:
repoquery --repoid=base --repoid=updates --repoid=extras --qf "%-20{repoid} %{name}" yum-priorities
extras yum-priorities
For some reason it was not in the base 5.4 distribution.
John