The repository scoring problem - a proposal

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 12 mars 2006 à 23:10 +0000, David Woodhouse a écrit :
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 18:34 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Why do you need a separate header/field/whatever ?
> > You *already* have this field - that's the GPG signature.
> > Assign weights to signing keys and you're done 
> 
> Not always sufficient. Most of the time I want yum to prioritise, it's
> when it downloads a package from a remote repository which is actually
> also available from a local one (with a file:// URL). I'd want to
> priorities my local caches over the remote repositories, which can't be
> done with the signature (although yum arguably ought to do that one for
> itself anyway).

The local/remote problem is 100% inside yum - can not be solved at the
package level. One could even argue it should not be exposed at the user
at all.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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