On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@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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