CentOS yum repository

[Kai Schaetzl]

Mark Nienberg wrote on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:06:40 -0800:

> I see that in the CentOS-Extra repo there is perl-MimeTools 1.77.

You mean perl-MailTools, right? (There is also a MIME Tools package!)

So if 
> you give that repo priority=1 and rpmforge priority=10, then yum should 
> install the 1.77 version from Extras even if rpmforge has 2.02 in it.

Yes.
You can also exclude certain packages in the repo file. Just add

exclude=packagename (you can use globbing)

Warning: multiple exclusions have to be on one line!

Where is that "experimental yum repo"?

Kai

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