[elrepo] ELRepo, RPMForge and yum-priorities

[Nicolas Kovacs]

Hi,

I've been using CentOS on desktops for a long time (with an occasional stint 
to Fedora, which never lasted more than a couple of days :oD), but I only 
recently discovered ELRepo, which looks great. The sort of thing I wish I had 
discovered sooner, as it would have spared me some hassle. Thumbs up to the 
maintainers!

Until now, I've only been using RPMForge as 3rd party repo, with the yum-
priorities plugin. Usually, I enable [base], [updates] and [extras] with a 
prioirity of 1, and [rpmforge] with 10. 

I just played around a bit with [elrepo], and here's a configuration I figured 
out. Please correct me if I'm doing something silly here. 

[base], [updates], [extras]
enabled=1
priority=1

[elrepo]
enabled=1
priority=1

[rpmforge]
enabled=1
priority=10

This way, I can simply 'yum install nvidia-x11-drv-96xx' for example, without 
having any problem with broken packages.

On the other hand, a simple 'yum update' (without installing any ELRepo 
driver, that is) wants to update module-init-tools, and I wonder if this is a 
bad thing. 

Cheers from the sunny South of France,

Niki Kovacs
-- 
http://www.kikinovak.net