On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:13 -0700, Ryan McDougall wrote: > Hello, > Yum has an option to install rpms, but AFAICT it operates exactly the > same as update, ie it overwrites the existing rpms. I don't understand this statement. If you try to install a package you already have installed yum will exit and tell you that it is already installed. If you try to install a package and you have an older version of it installed, then yes, yum will update the package. > I want to upgrade to FC2 test1 via yum but it chokes on all the tools > that depend on python2.2 when it attempts to install python2.3. Even > though the new tools will probably depend on python2.3 anyways, I think > "fair enough, I could have two parallel python installs", and I type > > yum install python > to which it naturally complains all the same as > > yum update python run yum upgrade you can't do parallel installs of python 2.2 and python 2.3 - they provide the same files. > So next I think "ok, I trust Red Hat, so I'll just force the install > through", hoping that it will update anything that depends on python2.3. > Yet no luck since there is no such command. why would you do this? forcing a package is a bad idea. > "Im not done yet!" Goes my inner monologue, and I think I will just get > yum to get the python2.3 files and I will manually force them through. > Again hopes are dashed as yum doesnt have such a command. yes and a --force command, especially in this case would screw up your system. > Question: why doesnt yum have some feature to help me do any of the > above, so I dont have to revert to manual labour? If I can manually > parallel install python, why cant I get yum to do the same? > run yum upgrade. -sv
