On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:14 +0100, dan1 wrote: > Hello. > > I would like to know how other repositories than the official ones for > CentOS 4 affect an update of a package if a package is present in both > repositories. > Will yum install the package that it finds having the highest version > number ? and if so, is there a mean to tell yum that we would like to > keep the preference to one repository instead of the highest version > number on a possibly other repository ? > > I ask that because I realise that having multiple repositories added > to yum might mix up things if the packages placed there are compiled > for newer versions, and even possibly create another system than > CentOS by updating several main common packages. That would do > something between a CentOS and a cAos distribution, is that right ? Yes, if you have a newer version in a repository and you add that full repo, the newest version will get installed. But with yum > 2.2.x there is a feature called "includepkgs=" > > For example, I would like to use Dag Wieers' repos, but I am in fear > that some mix up might happen if there are several same packages with > different versions than the official CentOS ones (and is it possible > to have same packages there? ). With "includepkgs=" you can make an entry like this in the definition for the Dag repo: includepkgs=rsync iptraf It would then only look at rsync and iptraf from dags repo See this link for an in depth review of yum: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/index.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051106/dd34de80/attachment-0005.sig>