On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 17:53:14 -0400 Fred Smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:04:04PM +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > This just came to my attention --- I have CentOS 7 installed on one > > machine, and have configured elrepo and epel as additional > > repositories. When I turned on the yum-priorities package (and set > > up priorities in the order base&updates < elrepo < epel), it turns > > out that there are 65 conflicting packages between base and epel, > > and additional 5 between elrepo and epel (there are no conflicts > > between base and elrepo, as expected). > > Somehow I thought (without going to verify) that epel should be > before elrepo. > > Just looked at my repo configs and I have epel priority at 20 and > elrepo at 40. The priority between elrepo and epel is usually a matter of personal preference, but either way epel is stepping over the base and updates repos, regardless of elrepo, as I explained: > > # yum repolist --disablerepo=elrepo > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities [snip] > > 65 packages excluded due to repository priority protections This shouldn't happen, and as far as I know, it is considered a Bad Thing(tm). Does anyone have any more detailed info regarding this? Best, :-) Marko _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos