On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 16:39, Florin Andrei wrote: > I'm using yum with Fedora 2; i apply updates from the main Fedora yum > repository (well, a mirror actually, but nevermind) and i also have > about 3 other repos defined in yum.conf (freshrpms.net, atrpms.net and > dag.wieers.com) > > Some of those other repos carry packages which are "newer" than the > corresponding ones in the official Fedora repo. Sometimes i do want to > upgrade to the newer version offered by a repo, but sometimes i just > want to stay with whatever's the official package version regardless of > what's in the repo. > > The problem is, "yum update" will always pick up the newest package in > all repos and update it, regardless of my intention. > > I would like to configure yum so that it will only update packages with > updates from their own repositories of origin. > E.g., if i'm using a package from the official Fedora distribution, "yum > update" should only update it with the official Fedora updates. But if i > manually update that package to a newer version from another repository, > yum should track only that particular repository for updates for that > package. > > Essentially, that could be defined as "sticky repositories". > > Is that currently achievable with yum? no and tracking an installed package back to it's repository of origin is going to be prone to failure. -sv
