On 21/07/17 17:10, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 05:00:35PM +0100, John Hodrien 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
Many thanks Matthew, that's a great overview.
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 ;)
Tragically possible. :)
In this case, working through the logic, it would appear that primus
probably won the battle on the basis of pulling in fewer deps than
mesa-libGL, but what else is already installed on the system would
clearly have an effect here.
Still, nice to know the logic involved.
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