On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:05 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > There are times when reinstall from a local package is desirable. > For instance, lets say I want to use latest official fwbuilder package, > which comes in rpm package from sourceforge, but doesn't offer any yum > repository. So i download *fwbuilder*.rpm and I can install it just fine > with "yum install *fwbuilder*.rpm", processing dependencies as needed. > Sometime later, I accidently delete a file belonging to libfwbuilder. I > still have the original package, so I can do something like : > > rpm -e --nodeps libfwbuilder > rpm -ivh libfwbuilder*.rpm > you don't need to do that: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --replacepkgs --replacefiles libfwbuilder*.rpm > (is there a command line for rpm reinstall?) It would be nice if I can > use yum reinstall for that. Or (even better) something that can do "I > want to install this package, install/reinstall/upgrade/downgrade if you > have to". downgrade ain't gonna happen. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
