On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:15 -0700, Neil Harkins wrote: > > Hi. This appears to be a bug. I'm trying to install certain packages, > which have dependancies that are *specific versions* of packages > higher than those already installed. Because the dependancy check > fails, yum tries to "install", which fails due to conflicts. > > It seems the correct behavior would be for yum to figure out that the > version > is what's wrong, not non-existence, and automatically do an "upgrade" > of those components, even though the command line was "install", > as we're operating on a depedancy tree. > yum will not ever downgrade a component on an install. that's extremely dangerous behavior. If you have a version of something which requires an older version either: 1. build the thing against the newer version 2. provide a compat- pkg to provide the old dep -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
