From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 93943 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2017 18:40:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 93929 invoked by uid 89); 5 Sep 2017 18:40:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=neuron, our, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:40:22 +0000 Received: from vsmx004.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.198]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7888CDF1F for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:40:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Gertrud (p57b9de88.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.185.222.136]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2EEEACDF80 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 18:40:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 00/14] Use libsolv, solve all our problems... (WIP) References: <20170531105015.162228-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <470d4572-4d63-81c2-7e26-6a642cce1e9f@cornell.edu> <2d099e44-fb17-4bf3-f72c-e6019a6259b3@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 18:40:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <2d099e44-fb17-4bf3-f72c-e6019a6259b3@dronecode.org.uk> (Jon Turney's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:34:31 +0100") Message-ID: <87d175f0qc.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-VADE-STATUS: LEGIT X-SW-Source: 2017-09/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 Jon Turney writes: > Yeah, I'm not sure if putting the test packages into a separate repo > which is disabled unless explicitly enabled is the right approach. > > (Instead, perhaps it is possible to tell the solver that certain > repositories are disfavoured) At least for zypper, which is based on the same library: You can give each repo a priority and it will pick the package from the one with the highest priority, even if another repo has a higher version. You can also tell the solver not to switch packages to another repo automatically, so that once you've switched something to testing it will stay there. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf rackAttack V1.04R1: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada