On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 15:23 +1300, Martin Langhoff wrote: > OLPC's XS ships a number of patched packages. The packages are > normally built with a different "stream" or "flavour" (they don't say > "f9" but "xs05") and sit in a special repository. > > Is there a good way to ensure revisor/yum prefers the packages from > the xs stream or repo over the standard F9 release or update packages, > even if the f9 package is newer? > > (In the APT/Debian world the closest parallel would be setting apt > preferences to have biased priorities -- aka Pin -- on a label or a > component.)
you can use yum's priorities plugin to achieve similar results. Just as in the apt-world configuring priorities/pinning for longterm/widespread use is a frelling nightmare. -sv -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list Fedora-buildsys-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list