[elrepo] ELRepo, RPMForge and yum-priorities

[Alan Bartlett]

On 13 November 2010 08:27, Nicolas Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:

<snip>

> 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

I would be inclined to configure the system as follows --

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

[elrepo]
enabled=0
priority=5

[rpmforge]
enabled=0
priority=10

Then my daily check for updates (a cron job) would execute --

yum --enablerepo=elrepo,rpmforge check-update

If on one of those very rare occasions where we need to replace a core
package, I would --

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo update name_the_package

Obviously there are a number of ways of achieving the desired result,
each with its advantages / disadvantages.

Alan.