questions about yum.conf (long)

[Barbara Pennacchi]

Hi, I have 3 questions about yum.conf (my version of yum is 2.0.7-3)

1) I've put 3 different servers in it, the nearest mirror first, then  
fedoralegacy.org and fedora.us for last, but it looks like yum ignores the  
order I put them in and tries to go to fedora.us first! (yum.conf  
available upon request)

2) If I do a yum check-update, I see there are updates to, say, tcpdump  
libpcap and arpwatch. But yum update alone ignores them. I have to specify  
the name of the rpm I want to upgrade. Sometimes I have to try twice  
before it gets the hint. (transcript available upon request as to not hog  
the ML)

3) has anyone checked the coherency between what's found in fedoralegacy's  
website regarding entries in yum.conf? Take, for example,  
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/download/ and  
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh9.php (i use a RH9 box). If you  
look carefully at the exapmles, there are slight differences in the  
structure of the baseurls. I know, I know: maybe both work just fine, but  
for someone newbish enough and not so much the average luser, this might  
leave them a bit stymied.

P.S: I've set the debug level in yum.conf to 2. To what level should I put  
it as to see in the log something more about yum's almost-idiotic  
behaviour for questions 1 and 2?

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