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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263