Re: Tying yum to a package "stream"?
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