Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it>wrote:

>
> In fact, yum does not have an idea about what is a base package and what
> is an update,
> it just looks at all the configured repos and selects the newest version.
> On the other hand, if you tell yum "--disable-repo=updates", the updates
> repository
> will be hidden to the selection algorithm, so you will get the base
> version.


Excellent factoid Roberto!

In fact that paragraph should go quoted verbatim to the yum man page, if
man pages were actually manual (documentation) pages instead of pages long
description of switches/options rarely with any useful real-world usage
case examples... ;)

The best documentation, imho was the one provided with Digital Research
DR-DOS 6.0 and the /? switch used with every command...

FC

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