yum, and 2 packages that provide the same thing

Stephen Warren s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org
Fri Apr 18 21:43:10 UTC 2008


On Fri, April 18, 2008 1:14 pm, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Stephen Warren
> <s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>>
>>  Rather, I was hoping that since I'd asked to install "unison", and 2
>>  packages both had virtual provides for "unison" with differing version
>>  numbers, then yum would pick the package with the higher version number
>>  for that virtual provide, solely based on the virtual provide version
>>  values.
>
> So you want an unversioned dep to be filled by the highest versioned
> virtual provides?

Yes (although I'm not sure if the work "dep" is the correct term for the
user parameter passed to "yum install"; "dep" implies a "requires" in an
.rpm to me, but I may just be insinuating meaning that isn't there).




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