Duplicate FC6 packages for Freshrpms+Dries

James Sedgwick jsedgwick at lawrenceville.org
Fri Dec 8 18:36:39 CET 2006


The thing about protectbase is that I DO want dries to override
freshrpms if it has a newer version of a package, but NOT just because
it has .rf tagged on it.

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:30 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> I believe you want the yum plugin protectbase. It can be installed from
> extras.  It allows you to specify a yum repo that other packages won't
> override if there are duplicates.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:26 -0500, James Sedgwick wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	I use both dries and freshrpms, although not installed via rpmforge
> > because there is no rpmforge FC6 package. I was wondering how I can
> > avoid so many packages being duplicated between the two repositories.
> > Often the freshrpms one will say "package.version.fc6.arch.rpm" whereas
> > the dries one will be "package.version.fc6.rf.arch.rpm," but they'll be
> > the same thing. What's that about?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > James Sedgwick


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