Hey, Sometimes, it's required to remove and install packages within one rpm transaction. For example, if there are two packages which have the same provides but different package names, there's no way currently to replace it. Ugh, that was confusing, wasn't it? Here's (hopefully) a better example: Installed: foo (requires bar) bar (provides bar) Available: baz (provides bar, conflicts with 'bar' package) So in this case, there isn't a nice way to replace the 'bar' provider. People would usually do something like: rpm -e --nodeps bar rpm -ivh baz The attached patch adds a way to do that: If a package name is prefixed with the '~' character and passed to "yum install", it's removed instead of installed. So, to continue with the example: yum install baz ~bar Tambet -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: yum-install.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 709 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20060510/2f3dd138/yum-install.bin
