On 09/30/09 18:25, Geert Janssens enlightened us: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: > > On 2009-09-30 at 10:58:10, Geert Janssens wrote: > > >> My question is, how can I tell yum to give higher priority to the > > >> Red Hat repositories? > > > > > >http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities > > > > Thanks for the link. In my own research I found mention of the CentOS > > yum-priorities package. I was wondering how to do it in RHEL, though, > > which lacks that package. Should I install it from CentOS, then manually > > edit each of the .repo files and add priority lines? What about the > > regular Red Hat repositories that aren't listed in .repo files? How do I > > set the priority of those? > > > I'm not using Red Hat myself, so I can only suggest things. If redhat doesn't > provide the yum-priorities plugin in one of its own repositories, I guess > manually installing the yum-priorities package from the CentOS repo would be > the easiest route to get started. > > I am not sure what you mean with "regular Red Hat repositories that aren't > listed in .repo files". > > As far as I know (but my knowledge is limited) all repositories used by yum > are defined in /etc/yum.repos.d/ or directly in /etc/yum.conf > > Just go through all these files and add a priority=xyz to each repository > defined in there. > > This way you can decide which repos have the highest priority. >
Because of the way the yum-rhn-plugin works, priorities can't be used with Red Hat systems. They do provide the yum-protectbase package which isn't as flexible as priorities, but the Red Hat repos are protected, so any repo that is not protected can't overwrite packages from a protected repo. In your case this would probably work fine. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/ProtectBase Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222
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