On 01/16/2014 09:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote: >>> >>> How do you see this working for a package that is not in EPEL when you >>> install it from some lower-priority 3rd party repo, but is >>> subsequently added to EPEL with a higher version number and an >>> incompatible configuration? >>> >> >> 1. Same as now. >> 2. User changing EPEL repo file adding "exclude=<package>". >> 3. Creating new repo profile that will change EPEL repo file adding >> "exclude=<package>". > > Would you expect users to do that for every package installed from > non-EPEL repos even if they don't currently exist in EPEL or to be > alert enough during updates to notice when one has been added into > EPEL?. I just wish there were some way that yum could tell you > before it updates from a repo different than the one used for the > initial install of a package. > That should be request for Yum project, not CentOS, but if we define what we would like, we could even create a yum plugin for that and make a default for any CentOS instalation. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant