On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:06 -0700, Neil Harkins wrote: > On 3/14/07, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > I think you misread something in my message? > I'm not expecting yum to downgrade. That indeed would be silly. > I'm trying to install something which requires a NEWER version > of something else previously installed. The newer version is > available, > just not installed. > > Yum (2.4.3.1) is not smart enough to UPgrade that dependancy. > It tries to install the dependancy (presumedly because the command > line arg was "install", thus it tries that action on all dependent > tasks?), > which fails due to a conflict with the currently installed version. > 2.4.3.1? Where is that from? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
