FC4 & yum : kudos and a small oddity

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:35:44AM -0400, beartooth wrote:
> My machine was running Pan 0.14.2, and Pine 4.63 from an rpm with fc2 in
> its name; I would also have gone for that Pan release with a fresh
> install.
> Yum switched Pan to 0.14.2.91, and rpm -Uvh on a generic Fedora rpm from
> UW would not take, saying the installed version was later.

0.14.2.91 *is* newer than 0.14.2....

> I expect I can solve the Pine oddity by running "rpm -e pine" and then
> installing the generic; that will be easy, since Pine was barely
> configured yet -- on this particular machine.
> 
> Doing the same with Pan will be a bit of a hassle, especially on other
> machines, since all the data for a fully configured instance of Pan (at
> least as I run it) is bigger than a CD will hold.

I'm not exactly sure I understand the problem you have. But in any case,
this shouldn't be an issue, since all of this data will be in your home
directory and not managed by RMM.


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