There you go. I learned something new from this discussion also.
Thanks, Geert On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Matthew Hyclak wrote: > 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 -- Kobalt W.I.T. Web & Information Technology Brusselsesteenweg 152 1850 Grimbergen Tel : +32 479 339 655 Email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
