On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:15 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > > Also note that you can't just 'yum update' from those SL alpha versions to the > > final release, so even if CentOS did ship alpha/beta versions it wouldn't make > > life that much easier. On the other hand it would be nice if yum knew enough to > > do that - or to understand different repositories and be able to always update > > from the same source or be told when to switch and reinstall. > the new yum ( in fedora ) knows that, basically it prefers to install > from the same repo from where you already have stuff. If it's the feature I think you are talking about, it is also in RHEL-5/CentOS-5. But it only alters install (actually just changes the behaviour of compare_providers¹). AFAIK that doesn't solve the entire set of problems that Les/Dag want solved. Adding more logic based on "repoid of the installed package" is somewhat problematic, due to anaconda using different repoids and the fact there are a number of "repos" in the wild which are just URLs (so clients have semi-random repoids). The known "plans" atm. are more of the "make the priorities plugin suck less" variety, than to add vendor/buildtime/repoid/etc. directly into update calculations. ¹ http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders