On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Vandaman <vandaman2002-sk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > > [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 > > [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 > > Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is > 10 and > based on your preference) I did not write/suggest that particular part (but that does not really matter). > If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't > those also potentially overwrite each other if the same package > exists in all of them? > > Who has got several 3rd party repos and what are your yum priority > for those? One of my systems have these entries: rpmforge.repo:priority=40 kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo:priority=50 kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo:priority=50 atrpms.repo:priority=85 epel.repo:priority=90 CentOS-Testing.repo:priority=99 .... (not a complete list) I do use different sets of numbers depending on what a given system runs. In addition to the priority scores, use of exclude= etc is also important if you aim at getting certain packages from a repository of your choice. Akemi