Yes my previous mail was a bit screwed but the right option wrong programme... IMHO it is not advisable to use the '--force' option - it breaks things,Erik P. Olsen wrote:
In order to solve a nasty problem with xorg-x11 I installed xorg- x11-6.8.2-45 from rawhide. Now it has been released under the name of: xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.45 and when trying to install this package using "yum update" I get:
Transaction Check Error: package xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-45 (which is newer than xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.45) is already installed
As I am quite new with yum I don't know how to overcome this. What magic option will force the released version onto the system?
Look at list of files yum proposes to download/install, then download them manually from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/
Then (in the folder _only_ containing the newly downloaded xorg-rpms): $ rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm
.. to force install/update.
Øyvind
Your method is good but I'd suggest '--oldpackage' to replace '--force'
david