Florin Andrei wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 13:41, seth vidal wrote: > >>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 16:39, Florin Andrei wrote: > > >>>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. > > > Hm, then this is a rather serious usability problem with yum. > > Suppose i need a package that's not in the official Fedora distribution. > I find a repo which carries it. I add the repo to yum.conf. I run "yum > install blah". I leave the repo in yum.conf uncommented. > A week later i do a "yum install". Lo and behold, all of a sudden all > packages from that newer repo which have a version number newer than the > corresponding ones in the official Fedora distro will get downloaded and > installed. Sometimes this is good (but very rarely), but more often this > could wreak havoc to my system (it did happen). the situation is more complicated. suppose you wanna install x which depend on y, but y is in both the base distro and in the distro contains x, but you would like to install y from the base and just y from the other repo. currently you can't do it with yum (or you have to always edit yum.conf:-((). my wish-list for yum are still: - set prefered or priority of repos (like the above example) - faster dependency (hopefully in the new yum) - correct identification of the repo which a given package comes from (using the pkgid) -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
