[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: yum_package provider does not honor 'options "--disablerepo"' when searching available provides?

[Jesse Campbell < >]

Brad, how are you specifying the version when asking for a specific
version? Also, what shows up when you do a yum list? might just be a
matter of typing the version a slightly different way, the yum
cookbook is quite picky...

-Jesse

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 18:11, Eric G. Wolfe 
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>> I had gone with yum priorities previously, but so far as I can tell the
>> yumrepo cookbook doesn't give you a way to implement that sort of thing.  
>> It
>> may be time to ditch the yumrepo cookbook and simply put everything into 
>> the
>> main yum cookbook that we had been doing through yumrepo.
>>
>> I guess I need to take a closer look at the yum cookbook.
>>
> The yumrepo cookbook is simply a collection of recipes which enable common
> repos by utilizing the yum_repository LWRP in the upstream yum cookbook.  I
> don't personally use yum priorities, or else I would submit that feature
> upstream to be incorporated into yum::yum (manages the yum.conf to enable
> the priorities plugin) and yum_repository (LWRP which manages the repos).
>
> If that feature were available in the yum cookbook, you could then easily
> modify the yumrepo cookbook locally to utilize priorities.