Vadim Nasardinov wrote: > On Monday 19 September 2005 05:14, Gary Benson wrote: > > What is really needed is for some way to tell yum to ignore > > packages in jpackage.repo that exist already in fedora.repo. > > I doubt it's that simple though. > > Some of the possible choices are: > > (a) fedora.repo always trumps jpackage.repo; > > (b) jpackage.repo always trumps fedora.repo; > > (c) the user has a choice of specifying either (a) or (b) as their > default policy. > > People who use java stuff in FC exclusively with GCJ won't want > to lose the native bits due to updates coming from jpackage.repo. > People who use java packages primarily under a proprietary JVM > will be happy to pull upgrades from jpackage.repo even if it > means losing the .so bits; > > (d) go wild and make the choice of repos configurable on a > per-package basis. > > Although I don't know how simple or difficult this is going to be, I > doubt it will be much worse than the current situation. My initial > conservative preference would be (c) with fedora.repo trumping > jpackage.repo by default. I like the sound of (c), though it's not just yum that needs to deal with this: anaconda and possibly up2date need to handle it too. Cheers, Gary
