[Yum] xinetd-problem

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri May 23 12:47:03 UTC 2003


> Ah.  configparser issue.  Ok, I can live with that, and will dream no 
> more.  More important to me, though, is for the last repository in the 
> list to trump all earlier repositories (alphabetical is OK...I've been 
> doing it this long and it hasn't hurt me none).  It kind of botches the 
> way I'm using yum for it to work this way when installing new packages, 
> but when replacing and existing package it keeps the 'newer' one based 
> on version or epoch.

I don't understand what you mean here.

Can you explain your issue a bit more?

Did you want yum to "update" the packages to older versions? like
--oldpackage or something?


> I suppose I could rethink my package versioning and the way I'm using 
> yum, to include epochs to force this kind of behavior at the package 
> level.  I fear that way will lead to madness...I have a multi-tiered 
> method of deploying software and bundles of software, and it makes my 
> head hurt to think of some way to epoch this without breaking previous 
> deployments.  And epochs make me itchy.  I don't like packages getting 
> uppity with me and acting all newer than one that I can clearly see has 
> a more recent version number.  ;-)

Do not use epochs lightly. Once you start down that path it is difficult
and sometimes impossible to return.

-sv





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