i realize that it's a bad idea to use repos that try to supply the same rpm but, in this case, it would seem that there shouldn't be any ambiguity. first, i've verified that i have no ogle-related rpms on my system, using both "yum" and "rpm". regarding my /etc/yum.conf file and what's available: # yum list "*ogle*" Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora 1 - Base Server: Fedora 1 - Stable Server: Fedora 1 - Testing Server: Fedora 1 - Unstable Server: Fedora 1 - Updates Server: Fedora 1 - Updates testing Server: Freshrpms 1 - Freshrpms Server: Freshrpms 1 - Testing Updates Server: Freshrpms 1 - Updates Server: Livna 1 - updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Looking in Available Packages: Name Arch Version Repo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ogle i386 0.9.2-1.1.fr freshrpms-freshrpms ogle i686 0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 livna-updates ogle-devel i386 0.9.2-1.1.fr freshrpms-freshrpms ogle-devel i686 0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 livna-updates ogle_gui i386 0.9.2-1.1.fr freshrpms-freshrpms Looking in Installed Packages: Name Arch Version Repo ------------------------------------------------------------------ so while both freshrpms and livna claim to supply both ogle and ogle-devel, since i use a pkgpolicy of "newest", one would assume that i'd get the freshrpms versions in both cases. (i'm assuming that the comparison takes the build value into account, yes?) --------------------------------- # yum install "*ogle*" Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora 1 - Base Server: Fedora 1 - Stable Server: Fedora 1 - Testing Server: Fedora 1 - Unstable Server: Fedora 1 - Updates Server: Fedora 1 - Updates testing Server: Freshrpms 1 - Freshrpms Server: Freshrpms 1 - Testing Updates Server: Freshrpms 1 - Updates Server: Livna 1 - updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .warning: package ogle = 0:0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 was already added, replacing with ogle <= 0.9.2-1.1.fr .warning: package ogle = 0:0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 was already added, replacing with ogle <= 0.9.2-1.1.fr .warning: package ogle = 0:0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 was already added, replacing with ogle <= 0.9.2-1.1.fr .warning: package ogle = 0:0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 was already added, replacing with ogle <= 0.9.2-1.1.fr .warning: package ogle = 0:0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 was already added, replacing with ogle <= 0.9.2-1.1.fr .identical dependency loop exceeded package ogle-devel needs ogle = 0:0.9.2-0.lvn.2.1 (not provided) ----------------------------------- can someone explain the above? why are the livna packages apparently causing problems when they should be overridden by the newer freshrpms packages? just to play it safe, i did "yum clean headers" and tried again, in case i had messed up the headers somehow. same result. rday p.s. when i removed livna from my yum.conf file, things worked fine, not surprisingly.
