On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Johnny Hughes<johnny at centos.org> wrote: > John Doe wrote: > If CentOS repos are 1 and rpmforge is 2 (or higher), then yes it will > PROTECT the CentOS repo from updated from rpmforge. This is the > behavior regardless of if where the installed packages are from. If > rsync is in both CentOS and RPMForge ... you will always get rsync from > CentOS with yum (even if you manually installed the rsync from RPMForge > ... yum will still use the one from the CentOS repos) > > If you want to get a file from RPMForge and not a REPO that has a > priority number that is lower (ie 1 vs 2 in this case), then in the > higher priority repo, you need to add an "exclude=" line in the > CentOS-Base.repo file for that repo (in this case, in the base and > updates sections). You would put this: > > exclude=rsync To the OP, This is all well documented in the CentOS wiki. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities Akemi