[Yum] yum chooses 'older' provides
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Dec 7 23:30:33 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 23:00 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > 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?
> > >
it's a 'feature' of a sort.
when dealing with equally as good different-named provides of a
dependency yum does:
1. closest arch to the arch of the system
2. shortest name of the package
it's #2 where libnet10 is being grabbed.
change the dep so libnet-devel is pulled in specifically.
-sv
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