Install Procedure for yum-priorities¶

Requirements¶

To install yum-priorities you will need the following:

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 6.x)
• root-access
• a fast internet connection

Preliminary Note¶

Some basic information may be found at

• http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

Install yum-priorities¶

yum install yum-priorities

Configure yum-priorities¶

the configuration of yum-priorities happens by adding a priority setting to each repo-section

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

add to each enabled section a priority setting equal to 10

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
priority=10
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
priority=10
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

^Repo ^Section ^Priority ^
^iRedMail.repo ^iRedMail |5 |
^CentOS-Base.repo ^base |10 |
^CentOS-Base.repo ^updates |10 |
^pgdg-92-centos.repo ^pgdg92 |20 |
^virtualbox.repo ^virtualbox |20 |
^zabbix.repo ^zabbix |20 |
^rpmforge.repo ^rpmforge |30 |
^epel.repo ^epel |40 |
^nux-dextop.repo ^nux-dextop |50 |
^adobe-linux-*.repo ^adobe-linux-* |60 |

Test¶

actually not a test, but this one-liner gives you a sorted output of repo's and their configured priority

sed -n -e "/^\[/h; /priority *=/{ G; s/\n/ /; s/ity=/ity = /; p }" /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo | sort -k3n

should give you a output like

priority = 10 [base]
priority = 10 [updates]
priority = 20 [virtualbox]
priority = 30 [rpmforge]
priority = 40 [epel]
priority = 100 [adobe-linux-x86_64]