On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 20:49, Marc Glade wrote: > I'm wondering if it is currently possible to have yum select the latest > version of a package from one group of repositories over another group > of repositories? I think what I am envisioning is some sort of new > tiered approach to the repositories in yum.conf that mixes > pkgpolicy=newest with pkgpolicy=last that isn't currently doable with > yum. Say I have 3 repositories in tier A and two more in tier B, when I > run yum to update or install a package I want yum to search tier A first > and if it finds the correct package to pick the latest from those 3 > repositories. If it cant find the package in tier A than it would search > tier B. This would allow me to keep packages that may not be the newest > out of all the repos in my yum.conf but are the newest from the repos I > have more trust in or prefer to use over others whenever possible. If > this is already possible with yum can someone point me in the right > direction on how to set this up. Look back in the archives a bit - there was a discussion about repository scoring and pinning. None of it is implemented but take a look at what we talked about, see if it is close to what you're asking about, I'm betting it would be. -sv
