I'm new, yum rocks, yadda yadda yadda... I've been prioritizing repositories using a naming scheme for repo ids in yum.conf (see below) where the first two characters of the id is a number from 00 to 99 and then I have pkgpolicy set to "last" instead of "latest". The result is that I'm able to say repo A rpms always get pulled before repo B rpms when the same rpm is available in more than 1 repo. I'm sure this has come up before but for those who wonder wtf I need to do this for, freshrpms and fedora are constantly conflicting back and forth on a large number of rpms and I have a personal repo I want to trump both. This seems to be working pretty effectively but has some minor drawbacks. 1. yum.conf just seems kind of inelegant. 2. /var/cache/yum looks silly with all the number prefixes. (picky?? bhaa!) 3. Changing a priority requires changing a repo id which means I have to do some manual work in /var/cache/yum. Otherwise I get stuck with orphaned headers and have to reget all headers from the repository. Am I way out in left field here or is this pretty much how others are handling this? Has anyone suggested putting a priority attribute on repositories? << BEGIN /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=last tolerant=1 diskspacecheck=0 [50-naeblis] name=naeblis.cx baseurl=http://naeblis.cx/rpm/redhat/9 gpgcheck=0 [40-freshrpms] name=freshrpms.net baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/freshrpms ftp://ftp.au.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/redhat/9/i386 ftp://ftp.fr2.freshrpms.net/linux/freshrpms/ayo/redhat/9/i386 [40-jpackage-rh9] name=jpackage redhat 9 gpgcheck=1 baseurl=http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jpackage/direct_download/1.5/redhat-9/free [40-jpackage-generic] name=jpackage generic gpgcheck=1 baseurl=http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jpackage/direct_download/1.5/generic/free [30-fedora-stable] name=fedora stable baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/stable [21-redhat-updates] name=redhat updates failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/9 [20-redhat-os] name=redhat os failovermethod=priority baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386 [10-fedora-testing] name=fedora testing baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/testing [10-fedora-unstable] name=fedora unstable baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/unstable >> END /etc/yum.conf Thanks, - Ryan <rtomayko@xxxxxxxxxx>
