Ideas for yum

[Martin Marques]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>> 1) Preferences for repositories, so that a package in more then one 
>> repository will always try to keep the one from a specific repository. 
>> I saw an option in yum.conf, pkgpolicy, which is not documented, and 
>> the little doc I found on the web wasn't very enlightening.
> 
> You want yum priorities plugin available in Fedora Extras. Some docs at 
> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

I'll try this later today.

>> 2) Search gives to much information: One line with a brief description 
>> is enough. And it repeats it self: If the same package is in core, 
>> updates and freshrpms I get it three times.
> 
> Yum list | grep <package> tends to work better if you are searching for 
> the package name instead of the metadata.

Using grep? Shouldn't it be hard coded in yum? Just a thought.

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