Seth, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 13:47 -0600, Greg Knaddison wrote: > > On 6/23/05, Troy Dawson <dawson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I was under the impression that pkgpolicy was depricated, but still in > > > the yum 2.2.x branch. Especially since it's still in the base yum.conf > > > file that comes with it. But when I finally tried it, it didn't do > > > anything. > > > I do know that it was horrible code, and all that ... but how do I now > > > give my yum repositories priority over one another? > > > Troy > > > p.s. If this was already discussed, can you point me to the outcome. > > > > Is this what you were looking for: > > > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-May/006564.html > > > > and that's not _Really_ true anymore. > > pkgpolicy should have been deleted from the docs. It just went away b/c > maintaining it's functionality is very goofy, actually. > > you can do all sorts of things to pre-empt them by using include/exclude > lists but it's not the same thing as having a 'trump-card repo' But maintaining include/exclude lists is also hard when you are pointing to "arbitrary" repositories. It is not practical to scan the repositories and build include/exclude lists to add the functionality that was removed. -Connie Sieh > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum >
