Hi When adding priority to a repo, like rpmforge or epel, is it better to give the same priority or can give different priority to different repos, ranking them? thanks Marcelo
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:02 +0000, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:> Hi > > When adding priority to a repo, like rpmforge or epel, is it better to > give the same priority or can give different priority to different > repos, ranking them?The purpose if priorities is to do exactly that: prevent higher-numbered repos from overwriting stuff from lower-numbered priorities.> > thanks > > Marcelo > <snip sig stuff>-- Bill
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:> Hi > > When adding priority to a repo, like rpmforge or epel, is it better to > give the same priority or can give different priority to different > repos, ranking them?Even better - leave them disabled by default and install/update specific packages with --enablerepo= to control which you get and avoid, to the extent possible, random conflicts. I'm not sure if this is still true but I thought it was fairly safe to leave epel enabled since they rarely/never overwrite base packages. But sometimes you want something newer from rpmforge. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com