seth vidal writes: > what about something like this for the yum.conf file Excellent! I would like to add my "yadda yadda yadda" also to the yum is great crowd! Thank you for an excellent package! And I really appreciate yum's careful balancing between features and configuration/option nightmare - otherwise I would just use apt-get ;). I'm new to yum but I like Seth's suggested enhancement to the yum.conf file for scoring the repositories. Personally, I think scoring should be explicitly stated in the yum.conf file and should not be complicated by auto-magic scoring based upon characteristics of the repository. I guess explicit scoring also allows you to indicate repositories of equal value which you cannot do using the current alphabetical system (i.e., pkgpolicy=last). I also really like the suggestion, as Seth suggested, of a second configuration file that would be on a per package basis, maybe something like: # File: /etc/yum/package.conf # Note: The default package selection policy is specified by the # pkgpolicy attribute given in the [main] section of /etc/yum.conf [glibc] # Select the latest version of glibc only from rh9-os and the # rh9-updates repositories. includeonly=rh9-os,rh9-updates [foobar] # Select foobar from the highest scoring repository, irregardless of # whether a more recent version exists in another repository. pkgpolicy=last [foo] # Select the most recent release for version 1.2.3 ONLY. pin=1.2.3 # end of file This brings me, finally, to two newbie questions about how packages are currently selected during the following "tie" situations: 1) Given pkgpolicy=newest, if two repos contain the same most recent version, which repo is selected? Is the tie broken by using the repo appearing last in the alphabetical serverid order? 2) Given pkgpolicy=last, if the selected repository has two versions of the package, I assume the newest version of that package is selected? Once again, thanks to all the yum developers for a great job! -- Jeff Kowing <jeffrey.d.kowing@xxxxxxxx> All opinions expressed are my own and not of my employer.
