On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:18:32AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > OK, so if rpm isn't smart enough to do that, can we teach yum to deal > with this case? I think we can and should. Yum has already been taught to install certain packages instead of update them. This is just a slightly modified case, where you erase then install, instead of update.