[Yum] RPM with identical names in repos but different content

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On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 17:37 +0800, Kenneth Young wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My /etc/yum.conf points to 2 repositories, call it rep1 and rep2.  And
> as luck will
> have it, they each have a "authd" RPM which contains totally unrelated software.
> And yum list doesn't show both.  Is there a way around it?
> 
> rep1 is actually the Redhat repository and has this RPM
>   authd-1.4.2-8.i386.rpm [provided by RedHat, implementation of ident protocol]
> rep2 is another repository holding RPMs for gexec and pcp, and they require
>   authd-0.2.2-1.i386.rpm  [provided by http://www.theether.org/authd/]

Personally, I would inform the author of authd-0.2.2 that his RPMs
collide with RPMs provided by Red Hat (RHEL 3, FC3 and RHEL 4) and he
should consider renaming his.  Ouch.

/Brian/

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