Hello. I've recently started configuring the Dag repository on RHEL5 servers. I did this by simply installing the rpmforge package. I then use it to install nagios-nrpe, which pulls in a number of dependencies, mostly Perl packages. Most of the dependency packages are available in either the main Red Hat repository, or in the Dag repository.
My question is, how can I tell yum to give higher priority to the Red Hat repositories? On one of our servers, installing nagios-nrpe pulled in dependencies that overwrote existing Red Hat packages (perhaps they were an older version?). The Dag versions were built a bit differently, and it broke a third-party application on the server. The immediate solution was to disable the Dag repository, remove all packages that had been installed from Dag but which exist in Red Hat, and then re-install them from Red Hat. I'd prefer to have yum configured so it automatically gives priority to the Red Hat packages and thus avoids this problem. Doing so would also allow me to re-enable the Dag repository on the server (and continue to receive all the benefits that implies, such as updates). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
