[Yum] pkgpolicy=(newest)|first|last by repo order in .conf

Michael Stenner mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
Thu May 27 19:09:54 UTC 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:27:14PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > Well, you could sort the results of listdir before you read them in :)
> 
> What would be the benefit there - you can have multiple repositories in
> a .repo file - so what's the advantage of sorting the file names?

Well, it gives the user control over what order they would be imported
in.  This would only matter if the repo blocks were sorted by
read-order.  In the current model where read-order is ignored, it
would serve no purpose.

					-Michael

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