On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 15:09 -0500, Edward Bailey wrote: > I am sure this is a simple problem for most but we are perplexed by > this issue and need some help > > We are using yum 2.6 on rhel4 and we are having a problem installing a > specific version of an rpm. This repo is in our QA vertical and we > have 3 version of code being tested at any given time. In this > situation we have 2 rpms of a higher version in the repo than what is > installed on the server. We have been trying to installed the next > higher version rpm but not the highest version rpm and the install is > not working. Yum is reporting that their is nothing to install, but > yum search is seeing the rpm because we see the correct rpm version as > output. > > We can remove the rpm and then install the correct rpm but that is a > step we are hoping to avoid. Is this expected behavior? Would one of > the plugins help? Do I need to provide any other information? This is > my first post to the mailing list and I am not sure what is needed to > debug the issue. > yum 2.6 is likely to not cope well with not installing the latest version. you can exclude the higher version with --exclude - but beyond that you'll need a newer yum (and a lot of other newer bits to go on rhel4) -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
