Install Procedure for yum-priorities¶

Requirements¶

To install yum-priorities you will need the following:

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 7.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-7

#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/
priority=10
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

Repo	Section	Priority
iRedMail.repo	iRedMail	5
CentOS-Base.repo	base	10
CentOS-Base.repo	updates	10
virtualbox.repo	virtualbox	20
zabbix.repo	zabbix	20
epel.repo	epel	30
nux-dextop.repo	nux-dextop	40
elrepo.repo	elrepo	90

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 = 21 [adobe-linux-x86_64]
priority = 30 [epel]
priority = 40 [nux-dextop]