[Yum] feature request: include specific packages from a repository

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Hi yum users,

One of the problem I'm facing using multiple repositories is that a
number of them contain the same package, but with different
dependencies or build options. This can sometimes lead to a package
being installed/upgraded on my system when I don't want it. Often, I
add a repository to my list only because I'm interested in one package
in it. Alternatively, I may want to maintain my own yum repository of
a custom-built package for my server farm, and I would want to ignore
that package in all repositories except mine. The global "pkgpolicy"
option is not flexible enough to allow such fine-tuning.

Could I request a feature called, for example, "include", which could
be used on a per-repo basis, to only track a certain package(s) in a
repository? I know this has some dependency-related issues (for
example, the "included" package may depend on other packages in that
same repo). Perhaps the include can be applied after the dependency
checks.

-- 
Anand Buddhdev

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