On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Vandaman <vandaman2002-sk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> 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. >> > > It is this exclude=foo that I'm interested in. If you have > the setup you have described, then one would not need exclude > as the yum priority should take care of versions shouldn't it? > > If you have say webmin from webmin.com and there is webmin > in all those repos then it might be good to use exclude but shouldn't > the plugin handle versions between repos? You can find some useful examples here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus It's case by case. You need to find a good combined use of the priorities plugin and exclude=, includepkgs=, etc. Akemi