[Yum] yum chooses 'older' provides

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 23:07 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My system is a fedora devel, but I also tested on fc5 and fc6.
> 
> I have 2 packages, libnet and libnet10 (both in fedora extras), for 
> libnet10, I have:
> 
> Name:           libnet10
> Version:        1.0.2a
> Release:        11%{?dist}
> Obsoletes:      libnet < 1.1.0
> Obsoletes:      libnet-devel < 1.1.0
> Provides:       libnet = %{version}-%{release}
> Provides:       libnet-devel = %{version}-%{release}
> 
> 
> For libnet I have an empty libnet package, and everything is in 
> libnet-devel (which provides libnet):
> 
> Name:           libnet
> Version:        1.1.2.1
> Release:        9%{?dist}
> 
> %package devel
> Provides:       %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
> 
> 
> Now if I do a 
> yum install libnet
> libnet10 is chosen, while chosing libnet-devel would have seemed more
> appropriate to me, since libnet10 provides 1.0.2a-11 while libnet-devel
> provides libnet 1.1.2.1-9. Is it a feature or a bug? In case it is not a bug
> what is the correct way to handle my case?
> 

Can you list the packages out using:
yum list libnet\*

and send that output here. 

Thanks,
-sv