yum's algorithm for resolving dependencies

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 19:21 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> seth vidal <skvidal <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
> 
> > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders
> > 
> > that's how it does it.
> 
> Thanks. I didn't understand all of that, but since it only describes the current
> algorithm in detail, and the instructions refer to all versions of Fedora back
> to F10, and I still don't know how to reproduce the Adobe Reader problem, I just
> modified the instructions to disable the Adobe repo in the first command, to be
> sure.



run
yum -d 7 install whatever

with the adobe repo enabled

and you'll see some lines like 'compare providers' - when you see those
mentioning adobe reader those are the related entries.

-sv