"J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying out Fedora 13 (on a 64-bit AMD system with 4GB RAM, if it > matters). I have installed OpenOffice.org packages from Fedora's repo > but I'd like to try the repo from Go-OO instead. > > I looked into yum-plugin-priorities (which is available in the Fedora > 13 repos) and came across > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities so I could > read some documentation on how to use this plugin. I thought it would > be appropriate to give higher priority to the Go-OO repo than the > Fedora repos and I'd be one step closer to always getting > OpenOffice.org from Go-OO instead of Fedora. > > Towards the bottom of that webpage I read a quote from Seth Vidal: > >>> ... lead in, ending: (same way most people end up setting up >>>'yum-priorities' anyway) >> >> Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many >> things about priorities that make me cringe all over. It could just >> be that it reminds me of apt 'pinning' and that makes me want to >> hurl. > > I would like to know what the proper way to specify that I'd prefer to > get OpenOffice.org (and its related packages for language packs, > integration, etc.) from the Go-OO repo instead of Fedora's repo. > > Is "exclude=openoffice.org*" in the Fedora repo files the preferred > way to say I don't want OpenOffice.org from these repos (thus implying > that I can get OpenOffice.org from Go-OO as long as I keep the Go-OO > repos enabled)? > > Or is there something I'm missing in this? This should explain most of your options: http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/ConflictingRepos -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
