Jaroslaw Polok wrote:
> Robert Boehm wrote:
> 
>>>[snip].....That's what I do on few systems: no real problems seen so far.
>>>[which brings me to the very nice feature of apt that yum
>>>(IMHO) is missing: one can specify repository precedence ..
>>>I'm not sure if smartpm implements that concept too]
>>>
>>>Jarek
>>
>>
>>Thanks, Jarek....this is VERY helpful...as I have been AWAY from the
>>Red Hat/Fedora set-up for a while....I will evaluate and figure out what
>>I want!  VERY helpful indeed...
> 
> 
> Hold on: There are some serious apt disadvantages:
> 
> - apt (for RPM, I'm not talking about Debian apt here)
>   is not developped anymore since Mandrake took over
>   Connectiva Linux ...
> 
> - apt is missing bi-arch capabilities (so cannot really
>   be used on RH/FC for 64bit archs - x86_64/ia64 - unless
>   ALL 32bit compatibility packages are removed ...
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jarek

On the yum end, with the 2.4 yum it has plugin capability.
One of the yum plugin's that we have is yum-protectbase

I don't think this is totally like apt's repostiroy precedence, but what 
it does is you can say 'This repository trumps all others'

Troy
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