CentOS - Jun 2005 - how can I manage multiple repositories with yum.

I recently moved away from apt, becuase I could not make it work with 
multiple x86_64, because there are many duplicate packages from both 
rchitectures that get installed, and I could not make apt-get work.

Someone suggested that I try yum, which does work, but I am having a heck 
of a time managing multiple repositories.

It was easy with apt, being able to pin priorities to repositories and 
packages, but I cannot make yum work as nicely with pinning. I can exclude 
and such but most of the time it does not work.

I wish I could go back to apt while using x86_64.

If anyone has got any tips for either getting apt to work with multiple 
architectures, or pinning with yum please let me know.

On 6/13/05, Robin Mordasiewicz <robin at bullseye.tv>
wrote:
> Someone suggested that I try yum, which does work, but I am having a heck
> of a time managing multiple repositories.
> 
> It was easy with apt, being able to pin priorities to repositories and
> packages, but I cannot make yum work as nicely with pinning. I can exclude
> and such but most of the time it does not work.
> 
You can see from
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+site:lists.dulug.duke.edu+apt+pin+packages+yum+duke
that this is a subject that comes up frequently on the yum lists.  I
would recommend you read through some of those posts to get some
ideas.

Also, the exclude option in the yum.conf (man yum.conf for more
details) and the enablerepo and disablerepo may be precisely what you
need.

Some of these features may require a newer version of yum than you
have (you didn't say CentOS3 or 4) but you can always pull out yum
from cvs if the feature you need is released later.

Greg