[Yum-devel] Fwd: More yum oddities

[Josh Smith]

SV> mixing dag and livna repositories is an extraordinarily bad idea.

Mm, ok; I hadn't realized that.

SV> when you type yum provides libfame.0.9.so.1
SV> which packages from which repositories provide it?

It's actually 'yum provides libfame-0.9.so.1' evidently, FWIW. With livna
before dag, it says

  Looking in available packages for a providing package
  No packages found

With dag before livna, it says 

  Looking in available packages for a providing package
  Available package: libfame.i386 0:0.9.1-1.1.fc2.dag from 55-dag matches with
   /usr/lib/libfame-0.9.so.1
  Available package: libfame.i386 0:0.9.1-1.1.fc2.dag from 55-dag matches with
   /usr/lib/libfame-0.9.so.1.0.0
  Available package: libfame.i386 0:0.9.1-1.1.fc2.dag from 55-dag matches with
   libfame-0.9.so.1
  3 results returned

Alternatively, 'yum provides libfame' returns the livna version if livna
is first. 

SV> It's going to try to install the highest version. I'm betting this is
SV> more an arch issue b/c I think dag compiles most of his packages for
SV> the highest possible arch. So one is either exactarching in place or
SV> being overridden b/c of the better arch. dump a yum -d 6 install xine
SV> and save the output - that will help find the problem.

I've attached that below.

SV> I'd heartily suggest NOT mixing these repositories, though. You'll
SV> find you're creating a mess in your system.

Well, one sort-of advantage of pkgpolicy=last seems to be that I don't
actually end up mixing them. :^) So perhaps this is a feature, in that
sense.

I did in fact have some problems when I used to use pkgpolicy=newest.

Anyway, 'yum -d 6' output attached below.

                                      -Josh (jbs at cacr.caltech.edu)

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