I'm trying (desperately) to work with the pkgpolicy config variable to
force a particular configuration that I need (I need a local repository
to override all others). But I can't get pkgpolicy=last (or first) to
work.
I've set up my own repository and have included in it some packages that
I want to override anything that anyone else has. I've put my
repository last in the list (by using the convention of prefixing a
2-digit number to all repositories, and having mine be 99-wba, which was
suggested elsewhere, and which I hope works...perhaps someone can say
for sure). Here's my yum.conf file:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=last
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
and here's my repository list:
[01-base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=file:///mnt/wba/repo/distro/fedora/$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[02-updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=file:///mnt/wba/repo/updates/fedora/$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[50-freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=file:///mnt/wba/repo/freshrpms/fedora/$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
[99-wba]
name=WBA updates for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=file:///mnt/wba/repo/wba/fedora/$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
For example, I have a custom-compiled version of transcode (a prior
version from the FreshRPMS repository) in my repository. But if I do a
"yum list all transcode", I get:
Setting up Repos
01-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
02-updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
50-freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
99-wba 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
01-base : ################################################## 2622/2622
02-updates: ################################################## 677/677
50-freshrp: ################################################## 477/477
99-wba : ################################################## 39/39
Installed Packages
transcode.i386 0.6.12-5.1.fc2.fr
installed
Available Packages
transcode.i386 0.6.14-1.1.fc3.fr
50-freshrpms
My version is the installed 0.6.12-5.1.fc2.fr version, so I would have
expected no update to take place. But that's not what happens:
[root]# yum update transcode
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
01-base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
02-updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
50-freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
99-wba 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
01-base : ################################################## 2622/2622
02-updates: ################################################## 677/677
50-freshrp: ################################################## 477/477
99-wba : ################################################## 39/39
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package transcode.i386 0:0.6.14-1.1.fc3.fr set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
Update: transcode.i386 0:0.6.14-1.1.fc3.fr - 50-freshrpms
Total download size: 2.4 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
Anybody have any ideas, suggestions, etc.? I even grepped for pkgpolicy
in the code for 2.1.13 and can only find one reference, in the config
parsing code. Is it even implemented?
