[Rdo-list] Why use yum priority in rdo-release repo file?

Matthias Runge mrunge at redhat.com
Thu Jun 20 11:56:58 UTC 2013


On 20/06/13 13:50, Sandro "red" Mathys wrote:
> Great, thanks for the quick reply and the quick fix. Still thinking
> yum priorities are bad and should be removed completely from RDO
> (RHOS is a different story) but if only directly openstack related
> packages remain in the repo, it shouldn't matter anyway. -- Sandro
> 
Why do you think priorities are bad?

They give us the freedom to
directly steer combinations of packages, thus as overriding packages
from elsewhere.
Please keep in mind, this won't happen that often, but still there might
be cases where this is desired.

Matthias




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