On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 19:03 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:56:37 -0400
seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:48 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > I believe in the past we have asked the following:
> >
> > 1) Only build for the architectures that are excluded (eg build it
> > for ppc64 and not x86_64 or i386)
> > 2) Keep to the same version or make the release number smaller than
> > what is in EL-5
> >
> > I am not sure of what effect cost might have on other setups so will
> > check with skvidal and others.
> >
>
> Cost only matters when the pkg nevra are identical between two repos.
>
> so if you have epel and rpmfusion
>
>
> and they both have foo-1.1-1.noarch.rpm
>
> then yum will choose the one with the lower cost.
>
> but if they vary in evr or arch then it will sort by those
> characteristics first.
So given that the EPEL packages are intended to be exact clones of the
RHEL packages, with the same nevr and arch, having a cost > 1000 should
do exactly the right thing, should it not?
yes
-sv