[Yum] xinetd-problem

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 05:30, stephan.helas at e-7.com wrote:
> Helas, Stephan wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > i use yum for two weeks now, testing the update mechanism.
> > now i got some trouble updating xinetd-service.
> > 
> > i use mirror:
> > http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/yum-repository/redhat/updates/7.3/x86/
> > 
> > in header.info apears:
> > 
> > 2:xinetd-2.3.11-1.7x.i386=i386/xinetd-2.3.11-1.7x.i386.rpm
> > 
> > but there is no hdr file and so yum dosen't update the package
> > 
> 
> i found some answer. if i use pkgpolicy=newest, it download all header files, but if i use pkgpolicy=last, the header don't get downloaded. what ist the yum method to find out, witch package is newer?
> i got some troube with self-made cups-rpm. they have higher number an fewer build date, but yum tell me, to update to the older redhat cups packages.
> 

read the yum.conf manpage.

pkgpolicy does this:

the serverids are sorted alphabetically (as it says in the man page)

so if you have this in your conf file:

[a]
name=my repo a
baseurl=somepath

[z]
name=my repo z
baseurl=someotherpath


now if repo 'a' has xinetd 2.3.11-81
and repo 'b' has xinetd 2.3.11-24
and pkgpolicy=last
then xinetd 2.3.11-24 is the one that yum will claim is most current
available in your repositories.

pkgpolicy=newest is the default

-sv