On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 15:52 -0800, Alan Hagge wrote: > Hopefully this isn't in the docs somewhere...I looked everywhere I could > think of... > > Is there any way to force one repository (or more) to be "authoritative" > for any packages it contains? In other words, even if any other > repository has a later version of the package, don't use it. But if the > authoritative repository updates its package, install that update. > > Our situation is that we occasionally have to custom-compile some > packages supplied by FreshRPMS with different options than they use. > But I don't want my version overwritten by a later one from FreshRPMS; I > only want it updated if I update it in MY repository. > > The only option I could find that was even close was "pkgpolicy=last", > but that's not quite what I want. For all packages not in my > repository, I want "pkgpolicy=newest", but for my repository, I want > ONLY its packages to get installed/updated. > > Any ideas on how I can accomplish this? Have you thought of using exclude=pkgname in the freshrpms.repo to exclude the packages that you don't want from their servers? Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome
