On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:08 +0300, Tambet Ingo wrote: > 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 all you have to do is run this is in the yum shell: yum shell > remove bar > install baz > run -sv
