On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:15 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 08:32 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Erwin Rol wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 08:18 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > >> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Erwin Rol wrote: > > >> > > >>> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > >>>> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 21:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > >>>>> It affects my fresh installation of FC6 test1. > > >>>> > > >>>> D'oh! Looks like the release candidate nfs-utils went out with Test 1. > > >>>> Sorry for the confusion. > > >>>> > > >>>> nfs-utils-1.0.8.rc4-1 == Test1 > > >>>> nfs-utils-1.0.8-2 == rawhide > > >>>> > > >>>> So, force upgrade it, or remove nfs-utils and then install it again from > > >>>> rawhide. There is already a bug on this. > > >>> > > >>> Maybe a stupid question , but how can i "force upgrade" with yum ? > > >> > > >> You can't. Use rpm from the command line. > > > > > > Maybe another stupid question, why can't yum do a force > > > update/upgrade/install ? I already needed it more than once due to > > > broken rawhide problems, like this one. > > > > Because Seth has stated more than once he does not want to allow people to > > screw up their machines by allowing yum to do things like --nodeps or --force. > > They can just as easy screw up their machine with rpm --nodeps or rpm > --force, or even worse by trying to use rm to get rid of collisions, so > that seems like a lame excuse to not implement it. rpm is a low level tool and higher level tools above it are layered to do things that users typically do and users typically do not need to force install anything. Its generally a good design not to expose all of the functionality in higher level tools. You might disagree with that decision is some parts but calling it lame is well... lame . Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
