[Yum] Loss of pkgpolicy in yum-2.1 : how to deal with using 3rd party repositories selectively?

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:41 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> In FC2, I used to use DAG and ATrpms for a few additional packages. Setting 
> pkgpolicy=last and giving the additional repositories ids prefixed with 00 
> allowed me to easily get 3rd party packages when no official package 
> existed, but without receiving 3rd-party updates to packages for which an 
> official package exists.
> 
> Is there any way to accomplish this with yum-2.1.x and FC3, now that the 
> pkgpolicy feature has gotten lost in the grand 2.1 restructuring?
> 

pkgpolicy=last did get removed, you're right. It was not terribly
reliable when it came to packages being a higher revision in repository
above. So your goals would be thwarted.
ex:
00repo has foo-1.1-1.noarch.rpm

dag has foo-1.2-1.noarch.rpm

you have foo-1.0-1.noarch.rpm installed

now even with pkgpolicy=last you were still going to get the foo from
dag's repo not from 00repo.


in yum 2.1.12 (soon to be released) I've included a new option in the
config file:

includepkgs=

it's the opposite of exclude in a [repo] section. It lets you say you
want only certain packages from a repo rather than having to exclude the
ones you don't want.

-sv