[CentOS] 5.9: wait, or CR?

Fri Jan 11 21:37:21 UTC 2013
Johnny Hughes <jhughes at hughesjr.com>

On 01/11/2013 02:19 PM, fred smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:09:28AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On 01/11/2013 08:49 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>> On 01/11/2013 02:43 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>> Hey, folks,
>>>>
>>>>     I just saw Johnny mention 5.9 yesterday, and this morning, my manager
>>>> tells me he got about 100 emails from somewhere about 5.9 and a CR
>>>> repo. So, my questions to the team is: is there a CR repo, and is there
>>>> some urgency to enabling it, or shall we just wait for the release?
>>> First hit on google for 'centos cr', read that, make sure you understand it.
>>>
>>> - KB
>> Or ... I can link it for you :)
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR
> when using the yum priorities plugin, where should the CR repo be
> placed in the priority scheme?
>
> when it is given no priority, I get no updates. when I set it at 3
> (centos base, updates, addons, and extras are all set to 1, centosplus
> repos are set to 2 but disabled) I get no updates.
>
> 	# yum update
> 	Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
> 	Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> 	 * base: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
> 	 * extras: mirror.atlanticmetro.net
> 	 * updates: mirror.cogentco.com
> 	cr                                                                                          | 1.9 kB     00:00     
> 	Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> 	Finished
> 	424 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> 	Setting up Update Process
> 	No Packages marked for Update
>
> yet there appear to be a ton of things available in the CR repo.
>
> Should the CR repo be set to a higher priority (lower number) than
> the base repos? If not, what am I overlooking here?


The way the priority system works, the highest priority is 1.

If you want something to replace packages, it has to have the same or a
higher priority (which is a lower numerical value).

So, if your OS repo priority is 1, you would have to set the CR repo's
Priority to 1 as well to get it to replace packages from the OS repo.



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