Re: [SLE] Odd YaST behaviour w.r.t. installing an RPM.

On Thursday 28 September 2006 08:41, William Gallafent wrote:

So, why did YaST not install the RPM I asked it to, but instead
went off and found another in one of its own repositories, with
the same name but a different version, and install that? That's
not what I asked it to do!

Maybe the Yast developers took a course at Redmond.

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