At 6:36 PM +0000 11/1/07, Timothy Murphy wrote: >I find yum a marvelous resource, so the following should not be taken >as even a mild criticism. > >I recently tried to download gnokii-devel, >but I was told this required an older version of gnokii than I had, >as shown below. >I'm not sure where I got the "fc8" version I have - >I don't normally open any non-standard repositories, >but I might have done so in error. > >I tested "yum remove gnokii" but this would have removed >dozens of packages. > >I'm just wondering: what is the standard way of dealing with this >yum quandary, if indeed there is a way? ... Yum's --allowdowngrade option (and plugin) might do it. Haven't needed it myself. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
