On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:11 +0100, J?rgen M?llenhoff wrote: > Hi, > > when I have multiple repositories which carry all a RPM in the same > version which repository would yum pick when the pkgpolicy=newest is? > Would it pick the first repository that appears in yum.conf or would it > sort the repositories by name and pick the first in alphabetical order > or picks yum randomly a repository then? more or less random. There is _some_ order to it, but not much. We had a long discussion a while back of repository 'scoring' and how to rank them. It's another thing that would be neat if implemented in a sane manner. The problem is getting them to a sane manner. -sv
