On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:56:37 -0400 seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:48 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > I believe in the past we have asked the following: > > > > 1) Only build for the architectures that are excluded (eg build it > > for ppc64 and not x86_64 or i386) > > 2) Keep to the same version or make the release number smaller than > > what is in EL-5 > > > > I am not sure of what effect cost might have on other setups so will > > check with skvidal and others. > > > > Cost only matters when the pkg nevra are identical between two repos. > > so if you have epel and rpmfusion > > > and they both have foo-1.1-1.noarch.rpm > > then yum will choose the one with the lower cost. > > but if they vary in evr or arch then it will sort by those > characteristics first. So given that the EPEL packages are intended to be exact clones of the RHEL packages, with the same nevr and arch, having a cost > 1000 should do exactly the right thing, should it not? Paul. _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
