[fedora-java] Re: raising Yum's IQ

[Mark Wilkinson]

Resurrecting an old thread as I'm catching up...

On 9/19/05, Vadim Nasardinov <vadimn at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > What is really needed is for some way to tell yum to ignore packages
> > in jpackage.repo that exist already in fedora.repo. I doubt it's
> > that simple though.
>
> (d) go wild and make the choice of repos configurable on a
> per-package basis.


My simple solution to this problem has been to add an exclude= line to my
jpackage.repo file listing the names of all the Java packages that shipped
with FC4:

[jpackage-generic]
name=JPackage (free), generic
mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage_generic.txt
failovermethod=priority
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
enabled=1
exclude=ant, ant-antlr, ant-apache-bcel, ant-apache-log4j, ant-apache-oro,
ant-apache-regexp, ant-apache-resolver, ant-commons-logging, ...

and so on. The list of packages was built by grepping for [0-9]*jpp_[0-9]*fc
from the list of the packages that shipped with FC4, then stripping off the
version numbers.

When I first saw the problem mentioned on this list I was surprised that the
jpackage.org <http://jpackage.org> site didn't suggest something like this
to prevent JPackage packages from replacing the Fedora ones.

-Mark.
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