[CentOS] differences between yum update and yum check-update

Daniel de Kok danieldk at pobox.com
Mon May 8 06:38:20 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 01:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I agree. But this means that any repo can even overwrite the base repo just 
> because it obsoletes some package that is named the same as in the base 
> repo. This shouldn't be able to happen if I take "protectbase" literally.

I have not completely followed this discussion. But in the context of
the priorities plugin this should mean that if a package with a lower
priority obsoletes a package with a higher priority, it should be
excluded. I'll try to add an option to the priorities plugin to do this.

-- Daniel




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