[CentOS] Continuous releases and repository protection

Thu Sep 1 17:35:36 UTC 2011
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca>

----- Original Message -----
| James A. Peltier wrote:
| > Maybe I missed something, but it appears that the CR repository is
| > not compatible with yum priorities & possibly repository protection.
| > I had priority=1 set on [base] and [updates] and no updates
| > appeared. However, when I removed priority updates from cr became
| > visible. Is this expected? Did I miss this announcement on -devel or
| > such because I searched but couldn't find it.
| >
| >
| The updates need the same priority as the base you are trying to
| update
| otherwise they are ignored - thus for cr you need 1.
| HTH

That's what I expected but couldn't find an announcement about it so thought I would get it documented.

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