On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 13:42 -0700, Skahan, Vince wrote: > If I have multiple repositories with different rpms that provide the > same item (ie, Provides: foo), how does yum calculate which rpm is the > one it should autoselect if you have another rpm that "Requires: foo" ? > > Example: > - if you had repo A with rpm aaa-0.1-1.noarch.rpm > - and repo B containing bbb-0.1-1.noarch.rpm > - and repo C containing ccc-0.1-1.noarch.rpm > - and all three rpms had the same Provides: foo defined > - which rpm gets autoselected if your package list Requires: foo ? > aaa will win b/c of shortest/first sorted name. b/c everything else is completely equal. > I'm assuming there's some unwritten law of rpms saying "no two rpms > should claim to provide the same thing", but regardless how does yum > figure out what to autoselect under the hood when it parses the various > enabled repositories ? if you want to sort your repos via internal precedence you could look at yum priorities plugin - but it won't help where 3 pkgs of different name provide the same thing, I don't think. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
