On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 09:08 -0500, Chris Geddings wrote: > Hey, > What you are looking for the is the pkgpolicy directive. > > [From man page for yum.conf]: > > pkgpolicy=[newest|last] > Default: newest. Package sorting order. When a > package is > available from multiple servers, newest will install the > most > recent version of the package found. last will sort the > servers > alphabetically by serverid and install the version of the > pack- > age found on the last server in the resulting list. > If you > don?t understand the above then you?re best left not > including > this option at all and letting the default occur. > > Just to clarify, what it sorts alphabetically on is the name of the repo > that you put into []'s for the conf. So, you will want to be careful to > "name" the repo's in a way that will sort properly. > > For example: > [0repo] > name=Not the most important > baseurl=http://foo/path/to/foo > > [1repo] > name=The most important > baseurl=http://bar/path/to/bar > And to be more clear - for yum 2.1.X and above this option has been removed. You're best off using excludes and includepkgs options in repo sections to achieve the same result. -sv
