[Yum-devel] Priorities plugin added to yum-utils

Tim Lauridsen tim at rasmil.dk
Fri Oct 27 13:27:37 UTC 2006


Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi,
> 	A default priority of 99 seems strange to me. Wouldn't 50 make more
> sense, allowing people to configure repos either higher or lower than
> the repos without any priority?
>   
99 was the default selected by the author, it dont means a lot what the 
default is.
you can just set the priority to 100 for a repo, if you want it to be 
higher than the default.

> 	i.e. all the stock fedora repos won't have a priority configured[1],
> and people will only use this plugin when they add another repo, and
> they may wish to have that repo higher than the fedora ones ... so,
> wouldn't it be better if they only had to specify a priority for the
> added repo in order to achieve that?
>
>   
You have to specify priorities lower than the default on the base repos 
to protect them
or add priorities higher than the default to the addon repos.
You can do it both ways.
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
> [1] - yum would barf on any set priority if the plugin wasn't enabled,
> right?
>   
no,

[tim at localhost ~]$ grep "enabled=1" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo:enabled=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo:enabled=1
[tim at localhost ~]$ grep "priority=" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo:priority=1
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo:priority=2
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo:priority=2
[tim at localhost ~]$ yum --noplugins list updates
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Updated Packages
bluez-utils.i386                         3.7-2                  
updates        
rpmdevtools.noarch                       5.3-1.fc6              
extras         
shadow-utils.i386                        2:4.0.17-7.fc6         
updates        
tar.i386                                 2:1.15.1-21.fc6        
updates        
vnc.i386                                 4.1.2-5.fc6            
updates        
vnc-server.i386                          4.1.2-5.fc6            
updates        
xsane.i386                               0.991-4.fc6            
updates        
xsane-gimp.i386                          0.991-4.fc6            
updates        
[tim at localhost ~]$


Regards,
Tim



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