Hi all: I have rpm's that are built to be installed simultaneously on a system. They install into separate trees: /tools/appl-1.0.0, /tools/appl-1.2.3 and /tools/appl-2.3.0 (they are depot-lite software configurations placed into an RPM). When I perform a 'yum install appl-2.3.0' it performs an update removing the package info for appl-1.0.0 and appl-1.2.3 from the rpm database. I can install all the packages using 'rpm -i appl-1.0.0', 'rpm appl-1.2.3' .... but after installing with yum I can't delete the original packages since rpm has no record of them. In the mailing lists I found this note from 2003: https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2003-April/000980.html talking about a more general method for specifying packages as install only, but I haven't found anything about how to make a package 'install only'. Also there is discussion of the 'hack' for supporting kernel installs, but no discussion of the hack or how to make use (or if it can be used) when you have multiple install-only packages. So am I just out of luck and must forget about using yum to install/maintain my systems or is there some way to handle this? BTW I am using a mix of Fedora Core 1, 2, 3 to centos 4 boxes (all redhat based distros). The centos 4 version of yum I have is yum-2.4.3-1.c4. Thanks for your help. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-643-9300 x 111
