Re: Add cost=1100 in epel.repo?

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 04:23, Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org> wrote:
> As RHEL-6 ships some packages for particular architectures only (e.g.
> perl-Perl-Critic and a bunch of its dependencies are not included in the
> ppc64 release), we have built clones of the RHEL-6 packages in EPEL-6 to
> satisfy dependencies of packages that need them.
>
> This then leads to the possibility of EL-6 users on architectures where
> these packages *are* included getting the EPEL packages rather than the RHEL
> packages. This could be avoided if we added a cost (> 1000) to the EPEL repo
> in epel-release, such that yum would always pull packages from RHEL rather
> than EPEL where the "same" package existed in both.
>
> Any reason why this shouldn't be done?

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.

> Paul.
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