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Re: sl5 sites
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:10:06 +0100
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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Miles O'Neal wrote:

> That's fine until you start using a different version of
> a package than the vendor uses.  Maybe there's a way around
> that in yum; I haven't really figured yum out yet.  Is there
> a *good* doc on yum out there that explains such things?

The yum "priorities" plugin is the answer to that.
yum-conf-52-2.SL.noarch.rpm uses priorities to order the external
repos (dag, atrpm, adobe) the way that Troy at al want.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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