YUM: How to install package from a specific repository?

Akhran · 04-16-2007, 09:54 PM

Usually, yum just install the latest package among all the enabled respositories. However, for a particular package, is there a way to install the package from a specific repository?

Eg. Package A is available in both base and extra repositories. However, the package in extra repository is newer. Is there a way to use yum to install the older package from the base repository instead and to maintain the package at the older version even with yum update?

Thanks!

macemoneta · 04-16-2007, 10:04 PM

Installing is easy; just disable the repository you don't want the package from:

yum --disablerepo=extras install packageA

To prevent yum from ever selecting the package from extras, you can add to the extras.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/:

exclude=packageA

There are also plugins for yum that can control which packages are selected from which repositories, like yum-protectbase, yum-priorities, and yum-versionlock.