[Yum] ordering

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue Jan 2 05:26:16 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 20:26 -0600, Mark Alford wrote:
> Basic question, probably asked many times before.
> 
> How can I control the order in which yum checks its repositories?
> I looked in the FAQ, and it says the ordering is defined in yum.conf,
> but that seems out of date, since repositories are now specified
> by individual files in yum.repos.d
> 
> The reason I want to do that is that I need the livna repository
> for a couple of utilities like pine, but I have had problems with
> other packages from livna, like ffmpeg, kino, mplayer etc.
> I would like to put livna "last in line" so that if packages are
> available from freshrpms then I get them from there instead.
> 

You can only really do this with one of the plugins that can do pinning
or repo prioritization.

-sv





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