[Yum] Excludes per-repository?

[Joe Cooper]

Nevermind, I think.  Looks like pkgpolicy=last will do the trick, in 
just the way I wanted (yay yum!).

Joe Cooper wrote:
> Hi Seth and all,
> 
> I'm deploying yum for some of our clients, as an easy means to handle 
> Red Hat updates and 7.3 release packages while simultaneously keeping up 
> with our updates.  The three are kept in separate repositories (yay 
> yum!), and things work well, except when packages overlap (uh oh...). We 
> have no sure way of guaranteeing our custom packages are 'newer' than 
> Red Hat versions short of using the abomination that is the version 
> epoch.  Excludes as currently implemented would prevent our own updates 
> from being installed, defeating the purpose.
> 
> A per-repository excludes directive would fix this for us, as would an 
> 'always-prefer' directive that forces packages to come from the 
> preferred repository if versions are available in both.  Now that I'm 
> thinking of it, the option to always give preferential treatment to 
> packages from one or more specified repositories would be the better 
> choice (with version then breaking a tie between two preferred 
> repositories, if that isn't wishful thinking).
> 
> Is something to solve this problem already in there somewhere and I'm 
> not seeing it, or do I need to get my Python hat on and figure something 
> out myself?  (My Python hat is rather tiny, and doesn't fit very well, 
> so the latter option will take a while.  Hints for where to start would 
> be appreciated.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.

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