[CentOS] C7: EPEL conflicts with Base and ElRepo?

Thu Jun 18 21:53:14 UTC 2015
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:04:04PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> This just came to my attention --- I have CentOS 7 installed on one
> machine, and have configured elrepo and epel as additional
> repositories. When I turned on the yum-priorities package (and set up
> priorities in the order base&updates < elrepo < epel), it turns out
> that there are 65 conflicting packages between base and epel, and
> additional 5 between elrepo and epel (there are no conflicts between
> base and elrepo, as expected).

Somehow I thought (without going to verify) that epel should be
before elrepo.

Just looked at my repo configs and I have epel priority at 20 and elrepo
at 40.

> 
> As far as I understand, this shouldn't happen. Does anyone know which
> packages are conflicting, and why?
> 
> Here is the relevant yum output, note the excluded packages info:
> 
> # yum repolist
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * elrepo: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * epel: mirror.pmf.kg.ac.rs
>  * extras: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * updates: ftp.ines.lug.ro
> 70 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> repo id          repo name
> status base/7/x86_64    CentOS-7 -
> Base                                           8,652 elrepo
> ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el7      143
> epel/x86_64      Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64
> 8,025+70 extras/7/x86_64  CentOS-7 -
> Extras                                           128 updates/7/x86_64
> CentOS-7 - Updates                                          682
> repolist: 17,630
> 
> # yum repolist --disablerepo=elrepo
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * epel: mirror.pmf.kg.ac.rs
>  * extras: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * updates: ftp.ines.lug.ro
> 65 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> repo id              repo name
> status base/7/x86_64        CentOS-7 -
> Base                                       8,652 epel/x86_64
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 - x86_64     8,030+65
> extras/7/x86_64      CentOS-7 -
> Extras                                       128 updates/7/x86_64
> CentOS-7 - Updates                                      682 repolist:
> 17,492
> 
> # yum repolist --disablerepo=epel
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * base: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * elrepo: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * extras: ftp.ines.lug.ro
>  * updates: ftp.ines.lug.ro
> repo id           repo
> name                                               status
> base/7/x86_64     CentOS-7 -
> Base                                         8,652 elrepo
> ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el7    143
> extras/7/x86_64   CentOS-7 -
> Extras                                         128 updates/7/x86_64
> CentOS-7 - Updates                                        682 repolist:
> 9,605
> 
> 
> So what's going on with epel?
> 
> TIA, :-)
> Marko
> 
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