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

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:31:16AM -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S <shieldfire at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it would
> > report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do.
> >
> 
> Suppose we're talking about a package which is not part of the base
> install. Or that we're talking about Fedora XFCE whose default browser is
> not Firefox :)

Yum will attempt to install the latest version it can find based on the
repositories defined in /etc/yum.repos.d that are either 1) configured
as enabled or 2) enabled from the command line via --enablerepo.

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce at gmail.com>
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