Thanks for the quick reply, Seth. seth vidal wrote: >>I've noticed this too, just last night in fact. yum seems to have some >>issues with pkgpolicy=last not always doing what is expected. For >>example, if I have three repositories containing a Squid package, in >>this order: Red Hat, My package, My package plus NTLM auth support. And >>then I run yum update on a system that already has the Red Hat Squid >>package (which uses an epoch, if that makes a difference here), it will >>not update or even download the other Squid headers. > > > pkpolicy=last doesn't mean always override. > > if two repos have the same package the way yum determines which one it > will present as available is (by default) the highest version of a > package (meaning e:v-r comparison) will be the one yum pays attention to > for updates/installs. > > if pkgpolicy=last then that means the "last" package yum sees of a > certain name-arch will be the one it pays attention to for > updates/installs. Ok. Well then it is behaving as you would expect. Good, it isn't a bug after all. It isn't at all how I would expect, but that's my problem, not yours. ;-) >>Yet another issue (I guess it's a bug, but it seems almost intentional, >>since a sort of the serverids is required to make it work this way) with >>pkgpolicy=last is that 'last' is determined by serverid alphabetical >>ordering rather than order in the configuration file. It took me this >>long to notice it, because by happy accident, my serverids have always >>already been in alphabetical order in yum.conf! > > > This is the documented in the yum.conf man page > > look for pkgpolicy in there. Ah. The docs have changed since pkgpolicy=last was introduced, or I have a poor memory. Probably the latter...especially since I've 'luckily' had alphabetized config files for the past several months, and so things have worked mostly the way I thought they should. Ok, if I consider these things wrong behavior, will a patch that adds an additional choice that makes yum behave the way I would expect on both counts be accepted? And should I call it "last-and-I-really-mean-it"? ;-) -- Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Web caching appliances and support. http://www.swelltech.com
