On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:09:37 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:26:16 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > >> How did the administrator enable fedora-usermgmt without installing it > >> first? > > > > For instance, via any package in the transaction which provides the > > 'setup(fedora-usermgmt)' virtual capability. > > Right, so that would be a custom package that provided this virtual and > actually contained the configuration information specifying the UID/GID > range to use. > > However, given that fedora-usermgmt-setup in Extras provides this > virtual, any admin relying on the virtual to pull in the required > dependency as part of one big transaction would be relying on yum to > choose the right package (the custom one from the local repo rather than > fedora-usermgmt-setup from Extras), which doesn't sound like a very sane > thing to do. Whilst yum's behaviour is currently to pick the package > with the shortest name, that might change someday, mightn't it? Highest package EVR wins, so it's even possible to override the default package without "removing" a package in a read-only repo. > To be certain, a careful admin would install the custom package first so > that yum didn't get a chance to make the wrong decision. How does he do that? > Which negates > the argument for having the Requires(pre), doesn't it? The answer to this depends on your installation scenario. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
