Alan McKay wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm setting up some kickstart files for our standard configs, and need
> to install munin-node, which of course does not come from you folks,
>
> So I set up the Dag Wieers repository but in the repo file I set it to
> "disabled" so that it will never get used by mistake.
>
> Then when adding munin-node I do :
>
> yum --enablerepo=dag -y install munin-node
>
> But that pulls in a bunch of dependencies. And I'm not sure where it
> will pull them from. I know that Dag has basically everything, but I
> only want to get munin-node from there.
>
> How do I ensure this happens? I could do a hack and now that I have
> a list of dependencies I could precede the above call with another to
> add those, but keep Dag repo turned off.
>
> But I'd sooner understand more on how it works :-)
>
Install yum-priorities and give dag a higher priority. This will make
sure that nothing is pulled from it unless it is not available in the
main repositories. You can use the "exclude=" setting on the base
repositories if there is something there that you would rather get
elsewhere.
--
Bowie
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