[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.

Dave Pawson dave.pawson at gmail.com
Mon May 3 07:14:37 UTC 2010


On 2 May 2010 20:11, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yum will pick the highest revision number package available from the
> configured and enabled repositories - and also bring its dependencies.  But
> that can be wrong in cases where you use 3rd party repos to get one or a few
> packages that are newer than the distribution base and these repos also
> contain additional newer packages that you don't want to override the base -
> or cause conflicts with packages from other repositories.  That's probably
> not so much of a problem with fedora as it is with Centos where the base
> packages are fairly old and there is more reason to need some newer ones.
>
> --
>  Les Mikesell


Caution noted Les.
Can't see that I can do much about that.
Other than install one package at a time... which
I was trying to avoid on the time consumption front!

regards



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