[ I posted something similar about 2 months ago on the freshrpms list: http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2004-May/009640.html and follow-ups, but I guess that it was ignored... ] On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, seth vidal wrote: > each package object has a repo it came from w/i it. This would be enough for what I have proposed. > However, this is based on the packages being equal versions, and > picking one location MORE than the other. This is not a good idea when you have dependency chains that are also provided in different repos. When you start to mix and match, you have no guarantee that when results still functions. Even with same version, there is no guarantee about the compilation environment, flags, etc. > The problem I have is that you want to say: > even if repofoo has package bar as the newest, I want package bar to > come from repobaz. ... if I specify a higher preference for repobaz in general or for package bar from repobaz in particular. > It seems like these are policies best applied in advance so yum doesn't > have to know about them and realize it's not allowed to use them. I don't quite understand what you mean here... Force people to play with repos entries and --excluderepo switches ? > but then what people normally want is, use repobaz for package bar, but > only if they are w/i the same major version, otherwise use whatever is > the highest. ... if "people" want to be on the bleeding edge of the software development. But reading grumbles from people on Fedora and freshrpms lists, I see that most people want to be able to set some preferred repo for a certain package and make sure that also dependencies of this package are satisfied (if possible) from the same repo. This does not exclude wanting the most recent (different major) version - just change preference for that package to a different repo that offers the bleeding edge version - this would in lots of cases imply also installing (probably from the same bleeding edge repo) newer versions of dependencies. -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
