[Yum] Overriding specific packages

Fredrik Tolf fredrik at dolda2000.com
Tue Dec 19 23:29:15 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:43 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> AFAIK there are at least two ways to do so.
> First way is to bump the version of your local package using Epoch term.
> See http://sial.org/howto/rpm/epoch/ for examples.
> Second way is to use yum-priorities plugin, officially part of yum-utils
> > 1.0. If you give your local repository higher priority, ALL package on
> your local repo will be used instead of the official repo.

Thanks for these tips! I'll have to look into them in detail soon
(especially the Epoch method, since it seems to require modification
only in the built packages). Although the method suggested by Seth and
Leslie is interesting for its simplicity, it seems kind of ugly to me
because of its necessity for additional local configuration. Not that I
have that many clients to maintain, but it's more fun to do it properly,
right? :)

Thanks again!

Fredrik Tolf





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