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From: Allen Kistler on 28 Jul 2007 19:26
I'd like to set priorities on my yum repos, but not the way the
yum-priorities (CentOS or Fedora EPEL) does it. yum-priorities allows
prioritizing repos, but it also overrides versions. I'd like to
prioritize repositories, but NOT override versions.

Example:
repo1 with pri=1 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.0
repo2 with pri=2 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.1

So if I want pkg1, yum gets it from repo1 (highest pri for highest ver)
But if I want pkg2, yum gets it from repo2 (highest pri for highest ver)

Before I start hacking at priorities.py, has anyone solved this problem
before?
From: Allen Kistler on 28 Jul 2007 20:08
Allen Kistler wrote:
> I'd like to set priorities on my yum repos, but not the way the
> yum-priorities (CentOS or Fedora EPEL) does it. yum-priorities allows
> prioritizing repos, but it also overrides versions. I'd like to
> prioritize repositories, but NOT override versions.
>
> Example:
> repo1 with pri=1 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.0
> repo2 with pri=2 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.1
>
> So if I want pkg1, yum gets it from repo1 (highest pri for highest ver)
> But if I want pkg2, yum gets it from repo2 (highest pri for highest ver)
>
> Before I start hacking at priorities.py, has anyone solved this problem
> before?

Hmm... After some more digging, I get to
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-May/006564.html
which states

"Yum will choose the repository based on the placement in the config
file. If the config file lists your local repository first - then yum
will attempt to get it from there first."

.... which unfortunately isn't true when you throw yum-rhn-plugin into
the mix, hence my problem. yum-priorities works fine with
yum-rhn-plugin, assigning rhn repos a priority of 99. It's just too
extreme with respect to versions.
From: Allen Kistler on 28 Jul 2007 20:21
Allen Kistler wrote:
> Allen Kistler wrote:
>> I'd like to set priorities on my yum repos, but not the way the
>> yum-priorities (CentOS or Fedora EPEL) does it. yum-priorities allows
>> prioritizing repos, but it also overrides versions. I'd like to
>> prioritize repositories, but NOT override versions.
>>
>> Example:
>> repo1 with pri=1 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.0
>> repo2 with pri=2 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.1
>>
>> So if I want pkg1, yum gets it from repo1 (highest pri for highest ver)
>> But if I want pkg2, yum gets it from repo2 (highest pri for highest ver)
>>
>> Before I start hacking at priorities.py, has anyone solved this problem
>> before?
>
> Hmm... After some more digging, I get to
> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-May/006564.html
> which states
>
> "Yum will choose the repository based on the placement in the config
> file. If the config file lists your local repository first - then yum
> will attempt to get it from there first."
>
> ... which unfortunately isn't true when you throw yum-rhn-plugin into
> the mix, hence my problem. yum-priorities works fine with
> yum-rhn-plugin, assigning rhn repos a priority of 99. It's just too
> extreme with respect to versions.

After even more digging on the Duke site:
https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=586 says
"This is not true (see
https://devel.linux.duke.edu/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=585)"
and concludes with
"won't fix this.
if you want this implemented - use a plugin."
From: Allen Kistler on 29 Jul 2007 00:24
Allen Kistler wrote:
> I'd like to set priorities on my yum repos, but not the way the
> yum-priorities (CentOS or Fedora EPEL) does it. yum-priorities allows
> prioritizing repos, but it also overrides versions. I'd like to
> prioritize repositories, but NOT override versions.
>
> Example:
> repo1 with pri=1 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.0
> repo2 with pri=2 has pkg1-1.0 and pkg2-1.1
>
> So if I want pkg1, yum gets it from repo1 (highest pri for highest ver)
> But if I want pkg2, yum gets it from repo2 (highest pri for highest ver)
>
> Before I start hacking at priorities.py, has anyone solved this problem
> before?

In my continuing discussion with myself ...

I've written a patch to priorities.py that does what I want.

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249991
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