> > Don't worry too much over the issue...I just had a frustrating bout of > talking someone new to yum through installing packages from a custom > repository--all of which were epoched in the Red Hat versions and > already installed. It took more than half an hour for me to realize yum > didn't behave at all like I thought, and quite a bit longer to think > through how to work around it (these packages had a lot of deps, making > the remove/reinstall fix less than fun). Now that I understand it, I > can work around it relatively easily--and I very likely will still give > a go to adding a 'really-last' option that will 'downgrade' packages as > needed to prefer a later repository over an earlier repository. > Welcome. I'm not sure if you're going to enjoy the levels of suck you'll find your way into if you do that, but have a blast :) -sv
