CentOS - Jul 2017 - How does yum decide when 2 packages meet a dependency?

Hi list,

Say a package has a dependency for libfoo.so.1, and 2 (or more) packages 
provide libfoo.so.1, how does yum decide which package to install to 
meet the dependency?

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Phil Perry
wrote:
> Say a package has a dependency for libfoo.so.1, and 2 (or more)
> packages provide libfoo.so.1, how does yum decide which package to
> install to meet the dependency?
It has a series of heuristics:

http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders



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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader

On Fri, 21 Jul 2017, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 04:19:20PM +0100, Phil Perry wrote:
>> Say a package has a dependency for libfoo.so.1, and 2 (or more)
>> packages provide libfoo.so.1, how does yum decide which package to
>> install to meet the dependency?
>
> It has a series of heuristics:
>
> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders
That's fabulous.  You mean Phil could have fixed my issue by renaming the
package priiiiiimus so that the name was longer than mesa-libGL ;)

jh