On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:08:16AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > > > > > > exclude=spamassassin perl-Mail-SpamAssassin > > > > Than it wants to do the one from [base]. After also excluding that, > > it's out of options and doesn't want to downgrade anymore. Remains the > > question why? Is yum using versionnumbers from somewhere else than what > > 'rpm -qip' shows? > > Yes. It's using Provides and Obsoletes which -qi won't pick up on. Oke, so the problem is the 'Obsoletes' from the CentOS one, which is a 'Requires' in my new version. I'll have a look why RedHat makes it one package whereas spamassassin.org's specfile makes it two. Cheers, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems & Network Administrator (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2535278 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/