RESOLVED Re: Yum

Tue Oct 31 00:13:19 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:04 +0000, Darren Foster wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:59 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > rpm -ivh --force
> > ftp://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386//os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
> 
> Craig,
> 
> Your a star Thank-you the force worked.
> 
> Much appreciate this. Its been bugging me for a few days now that yum
> wouldnt work.
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you have to appreciate that the '--force' option on rpm commands is
entirely the wrong thing to do 99% of the time. This just happened to be
the 1 out of 100. Forget that the option exists.

Craig