Re: Correct way to specify priority or preference for packages?

"J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <[email protected]> writes:

> I am trying out Fedora 13 (on a 64-bit AMD system with 4GB RAM, if it
> matters).  I have installed OpenOffice.org packages from Fedora's repo
> but I'd like to try the repo from Go-OO instead.
>
> I looked into yum-plugin-priorities (which is available in the Fedora
> 13 repos) and came across
> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities so I could
> read some documentation on how to use this plugin.  I thought it would
> be appropriate to give higher priority to the Go-OO repo than the
> Fedora repos and I'd be one step closer to always getting
> OpenOffice.org from Go-OO instead of Fedora.
>
> Towards the bottom of that webpage I read a quote from Seth Vidal:
>
>>> ... lead in, ending: (same way most people end up setting up
>>>'yum-priorities' anyway)
>>
>> Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many
>> things about priorities that make me cringe all over. It could just
>> be that it reminds me of apt 'pinning' and that makes me want to
>> hurl.
>
> I would like to know what the proper way to specify that I'd prefer to
> get OpenOffice.org (and its related packages for language packs,
> integration, etc.) from the Go-OO repo instead of Fedora's repo.
>
> Is "exclude=openoffice.org*" in the Fedora repo files the preferred
> way to say I don't want OpenOffice.org from these repos (thus implying
> that I can get OpenOffice.org from Go-OO as long as I keep the Go-OO
> repos enabled)?
>
> Or is there something I'm missing in this?

 This should explain most of your options:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/ConflictingRepos

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James Antill -- [email protected]