[CentOS] Yum + priorities plugin question

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:54:11AM -0700, jleaver+centos at reachone.com enlightened us:
> I've recently started using the priorities plugin as part of my best
> practices.  It's very effective, and prevents nasty things from
> happening (like atrpms upgrading python and disabling yum.)
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a simple and elegant way to allow
> package-name-based exclusions.  For example:  For my mysql cluster, I'd
> prefer to have the latest mysql and mysql-server packages which I can
> get from utterramblings (Thanks Jason!), however, to do so while using
> the priorities plugin, I'd need to make that repo an equal priority with
> base, so that it'll upgrade.
> 
> I've worked around the problem by creating a duplicate repo with the
> exceptions as an includepkg and a priority equal to that of base, but it
> seems less than elegant, and I know it results in double the internet
> traffic for the repo mirror, which is less than friendly.
> 
> Does anyone know if there's a more elegant way to deal with this issue,
> or might this be an appropriate feature request for the plugin developer?
> 

Why not just exclude mysql from the base and updates repos of your distro?
If they are not there, they don't need protected/prioritized and the other
repo will win.

Matt

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