Re: Yum priorities plugin

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 16:56 +0200, Stefano Biagiotti wrote:
> On a PC with Fedora 13 x86_64 I have several active repositories with
> different priorities.
>  [fedora]
>       priority=1
>  [updates]
>       priority=1
>  ...
>  [adobe-linux-i386]
>       priority=20
> 
> When I do:
>  # LANG=en_US.utf8 yum install libstdc++.so.6
>  Loaded plugins: presto, priorities, refresh-packagekit
>  ...
>  Dependencies Resolved
>  ===================================================================================================================
>   Package                       Arch              Version Repository                     Size
>  ===================================================================================================================
>  Installing:
>   AdobeReader_sve               i486              8.1.7-1 adobe-linux-i386               51 M
>  ...
> 
> Yum wants to install AdobeReader_sve because it provides libstdc++.so.6
> as reported here [1] too.
> 
> Shouldn't the priorities yum plugin avoid to install AdobeReader_sve,
> and go with the classic libstdc++ package in the [fedora] or [updates]
> repository?
> 

The part you snipped is the part that would be useful.

Specifically. running:

yum provides libstdc++.so.6

would be helpful.

-sv