Alan McKay wrote:

Hey folks,

I'm setting up some kickstart files for our standard configs, and need to install munin-node, which of course does not come from you folks,

So I set up the Dag Wieers repository but in the repo file I set it to "disabled" so that it will never get used by mistake.

Then when adding munin-node I do :

yum --enablerepo=dag -y install munin-node

But that pulls in a bunch of dependencies. And I'm not sure where it will pull them from. I know that Dag has basically everything, but I only want to get munin-node from there.

How do I ensure this happens? I could do a hack and now that I have a list of dependencies I could precede the above call with another to add those, but keep Dag repo turned off.

But I'd sooner understand more on how it works :-)

Install yum-priorities and give dag a higher priority. This will make sure that nothing is pulled from it unless it is not available in the main repositories. You can use the "exclude=" setting on the base repositories if there is something there that you would rather get elsewhere.