On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:57 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:48 -0400, Sean Dilda wrote: > > > > Cool! RPM has supported this for a sometime, didn't know that yum did. > > > > > > > > > > ?? > > > > > > Since its inception, rpm has supported installing a local copy of a file > > > like that. It is, in part, what rpm was designed to do. > > > > No, Seth meant something like: > > > > yum install /usr/bin/myprog > > > > This will install the package providing myprog, if found. > > Which one? Does it list choices by repo or just take the first one in > repository order or search order? > it takes the 'best' one. -sv
