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

[Gary Benson]

Vadim Nasardinov wrote:
> On Monday 19 September 2005 05:14, Gary Benson 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.
> 
> Some of the possible choices are:
> 
>  (a) fedora.repo always trumps jpackage.repo;
> 
>  (b) jpackage.repo always trumps fedora.repo;
> 
>  (c) the user has a choice of specifying either (a) or (b) as their
>      default policy.
> 
>      People who use java stuff in FC exclusively with GCJ won't want
>      to lose the native bits due to updates coming from jpackage.repo.
>      People who use java packages primarily under a proprietary JVM
>      will be happy to pull upgrades from jpackage.repo even if it
>      means losing the .so bits;
> 
>  (d) go wild and make the choice of repos configurable on a
>      per-package basis.
> 
> Although I don't know how simple or difficult this is going to be, I
> doubt it will be much worse than the current situation.  My initial
> conservative preference would be (c) with fedora.repo trumping
> jpackage.repo by default.

I like the sound of (c), though it's not just yum that needs to deal
with this: anaconda and possibly up2date need to handle it too.

Cheers,
Gary