Set repository priority to a default value for repositories added via repository-url provider

[vaibhavdaren]

When adding a repository in the prepare step using a potential or proposed "repository-url" provider (which fetches and enables a remote .repo file), automatically set the repository priority to 1.

This ensures that packages from the artifact/testing repository take precedence over base system repositories, which is crucial for testing built RPMS/artifacts (e.g., in CI with scratch builds or custom repos).

Acceptance Criteria

• When the prepare plugin adds a repository from a remote URL (repository-url provider), the generated/enabled .repo file includes priority=1.
• Packages from this repository are preferred during installation (verified by installing a package available in both the artifact repo and base repos).
• No manual priority configuration is required for this use case.

This would provide consistency with other artifact-related preparation methods (e.g., COPR builds often need high priority).

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🔗 Similar Issues

Related Issues

• Add integration tests for all artifact providers #4420
• Finalize two-phase Prepare Architecture #4401
• Prepare artifacts repository from brew/koji build #253
• Prepare artifacts repository from copr builds #3993

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[LecrisUT]

priority=1 is excessive because the user would not have a way to put a custom priority for other repos. Instead I would say we should try to see what copr does and adjust it just a bit lower than that.

[vaibhavdaren]

From hacking session:
if the repo is provider by repo_file , then keep it as it is.
if the repo is provided by base_url , then set it to 99 as some default.

[happz]

From hacking session: if the repo is provider by repo_file , then keep it as it is. if the repo is provided by base_url , then set it to 99 as some default.

Was the option of an option discussed? E.g. provide: repository-url:https://...:priority=... ?

[LecrisUT]

Was the option of an option discussed? E.g. provide: repository-url:https://...:priority=... ?

Yes, the "then set it to 99 as some default." should be "set it to some default" which we can alter and expose, according to the discussion there.