[CentOS] How does yum decide when 2 packages meet a dependency?
John Hodrien
J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.ukFri Jul 21 16:00:35 UTC 2017
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote: >> Say a package has a dependency for libfoo.so.1, and 2 (or more) >> packages provide libfoo.so.1, how does yum decide which package to >> install to meet the dependency? > > It has a series of heuristics: > > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders That's fabulous. You mean Phil could have fixed my issue by renaming the package priiiiiimus so that the name was longer than mesa-libGL ;) jh
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