On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 22:14, Martinez, Carlos R wrote: > 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. I'm not sure I follow - yum downloads rpms now. or do you mean just download the pkgs but don't update them? -sv