Dave Pawson wrote:
On 2 May 2010 20:11, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yum will pick the highest revision number package available from the
configured and enabled repositories - and also bring its dependencies. But
that can be wrong in cases where you use 3rd party repos to get one or a few
packages that are newer than the distribution base and these repos also
contain additional newer packages that you don't want to override the base -
or cause conflicts with packages from other repositories. That's probably
not so much of a problem with fedora as it is with Centos where the base
packages are fairly old and there is more reason to need some newer ones.
Caution noted Les.
Can't see that I can do much about that.
Other than install one package at a time... which
I was trying to avoid on the time consumption front!
What I normally do is install the yum configs for 3rd party repos but leave them
disabled, then make sure all the packages from the base repos are installed and
updated before doing 'yum --enablerepo=reponame install package1 package2' to
get things from each 3rd party repo. There may be better way to automate it
with priorities or pinning but that has generally worked.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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