[Yum] Priority of repositories with pkgpolicy=newest?
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Feb 6 06:23:22 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:11 +0100, Jürgen Möllenhoff wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I have multiple repositories which carry all a RPM in the same
> version which repository would yum pick when the pkgpolicy=newest is?
> Would it pick the first repository that appears in yum.conf or would it
> sort the repositories by name and pick the first in alphabetical order
> or picks yum randomly a repository then?
more or less random.
There is _some_ order to it, but not much. We had a long discussion a
while back of repository 'scoring' and how to rank them.
It's another thing that would be neat if implemented in a sane manner.
The problem is getting them to a sane manner.
-sv
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