Prevent packages from switching from repo to repo

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Mon Aug 7 03:32:18 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:51 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Benjy Grogan <benjy.grogan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Is there a way of preventing a package from updating to a more recent
> > package from another repo?  I have several repos enabled, and I
> > noticed today that one package was set to be updated to one from
> > another repo.  So package foo from Fedora Extras was going to be
> > updated to a new release ( minor/major version the same though) from
> > Livna.  Seems like that's almost always unwanted behaviour.  Is there
> > a way of avoiding these situations with yum, and then in turn possibly
> > with Pup?
> 
> If you mean comical, that one is permanently moving to Livna (getting dropped 
> from Extras) because of licensing issues with the included RAR decompression 
> code. See:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190278

I thought Livna refused packages which the livna people consider a
problem as well? 




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