[Yum] Repo priorities (2.2.1)

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 23 20:03:40 UTC 2005


> > you can do all sorts of things to pre-empt them by using include/exclude
> > lists but it's not the same thing as having a 'trump-card repo'
> 
> But maintaining include/exclude lists is also hard when you are pointing 
> to "arbitrary" repositories.  It is not practical to scan the repositories 
> and build include/exclude lists to add the functionality that was removed.

I don't disagree. But repository scoring as a super-epoch to trump
versions of packages that are higher seem like the wrong solution to me.

-sv





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