Hi guys: Some times it would be helpful to have a particular yum repository take precedence over another one, for instance an example might be RPMs in commom-rpms work for all known distroes expect for 1. Typically what we need to do now is to copy the RPM(s) from common-rpms to all the other distro-specific directories and then everything will work.
However, a simplier approach might be to retain common-rpms but have the distro-specific one take precedence if it exists. Take a look at the protectbase plugin: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumPlugins I'm thinking that if we enable "protectbase" for distro-specific yum repository, then this will work nicely... I did a quick test with "torque" RPM in both rhel-4-x86_64 and common-rpms with rhel-4-x86_64 being "protected", and it picked the RPM there instead of from common-rpms. Thoughts? Does apt provide a similar mechanism for choosing the "priority" of a repository? Cheers, Bernard _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
