Matt Hyclak wrote: > 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 > > Hahahaha! That's awesome, I was so busy looking at it from one angle, I never considered the other. That'll work nicely, thanks. Jacob