On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 12:32 -0400, Richard Hally wrote: > Or maybe it does an uninstall of the current package then an install > of > the "old" package. Perhaps in doesn't make any difference wrt yum, > yum > could take advantage of the --oldpackage capability of RPM or it > could > work by doing remove <current> - install <old> and if either > --oldpackage or the two step approach can't be done (say for > dependencies) notify the user. > But since we are speculating about RPM here, perhaps someone who > actually knows can help us out. 8-) Ah, but the uninstall scriptlets are different than the install scriptlets. So again, whats done in install may not be undone in removal or oldpackage. The point is that like --force and like --nodeps, the results can be pretty bad, and yum would rather not make assumptions about the users system and intent. I applaud that as I've seen far too many users hork themselves by thinking they were doing something smart with --force --nodeps. If you really know what you're doing wrt these flags, you can do it by hand. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub)
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