Yes, I'm fully aware of this and am with you on that it is not a good thing to force installations but this RPM in particular that I'm installing is provided by the hardware vendor and it just so happens to overwrite the same file in the kernel RPM package. The only option really is to force it. I really like this YUM utility it is a very nice tool. Any work on just allowing a download option of RPM's? So something similar to what the up2date utility provides for the RedHat Network. -----Original Message----- From: seth vidal [mailto:skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:04 PM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [Yum] deploying and maintaining linux networks howto On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 20:57, Martinez, Carlos R wrote: > So I have a custom RPM or two that I normally need to "--force" to > install/update due to it is overwriting a file that is owned by another RPM. > Basically I have custom NIC drivers that I've created RPM packages for and > they need to override the drivers that are installed by default by the > kernel RPM packages. > > Any suggestions?? > oh, no. --force is BAD BAD BAD in general and yum does not and will not support such options in the foreseeable future. if you want to break your dependencies feel free, but don't expect things to work sanely afterward. -sv _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
