On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:54 +0200, Mark wrote: > Hey, > > First of all i hope this is the right place to ask this. > > Imagine that i want to make a Fedora Derivative distro and add in > packages that fedora has only than with other things in it.. for > example k3b but than with ffmpeg support (something i can do because i > don't live in the us but fedora can't because of possible us law > restrictions?) how would i do that in a Fedora Derivative? i mean.. if > i type: "yum -y install k3b" and the version number of the fedora k3b > package is higher/newer than the version in my repository than the one > from fedora is being installed/updated. > > Now i could of cause add exclude=k3b in the fedora.repo file but that > exclude list would get quite large with a full distro and yum would > get alot slower but it would prevent fedora files from installing and > allow my files to be installed. or is there some "priority" setting in > yum? > > With priority i mean this: > fedora.repo has: k3b-5.5.5 > mark.repo has k3b-4.4.4 but has the priority over all other .repo > files and this one gets installed. The yum manual doesn't say anything > about this. the closest is --exclude > > is something like that available? > > I hope that it's clear what i try to ask. > (for now) i don't have the intention to make a distro of my own but > who knows how the future looks ^_^ look at the priority plugin for yum. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
