YUM questions

[Wallace Judd]

When I run yum update it complains that I am missing
some kind of musicbrainz package or other and then
just exits. To top it all off the package is there. My
cdrom won't mount, and my system fails on firstboot. I
hope the next version fixes these bugs.
--- "Gene C." <czar at czarc.net> wrote:
> I normally use up2date to update my system but
> up2date had some problems 
> (reported in bugzilla) with the gcc packages in
> FC4T1 so I thought I would 
> give yum a try.
> 
> Now many (most?) source rpm packages which result in
> multiple binary rpm 
> packages all have names of the form
> NAME-xxx-ver-rel...  However, the gcc 
> packages do not and have a variety of names.  To
> complicate things I am 
> running FC3T1 x86_64 which means there are both
> x86_64 and i386 packages to 
> update.
> 
> If I do "yum update cpp" I get all of the packages
> but only the x86_64 
> versions and I really need to do both.  The only way
> I could get both was to 
> specify "yum update libgcc libgnat ..." where I list
> all of the packages 
> which have both i386 and x86_64 versions -- this
> works BUT is there an easier 
> (simpler) way to update gcc?  BTW, I could not just
> do "yum update" since 
> some other packages had conflict problems.
> 
> Another question that occurs to me is how to tell
> yum to "reinstall" a 
> package ... the package has been installed but I
> want to "force" reinstall 
> it.  For example, lets say a package has both x86_64
> and i386 versions and I 
> have updated the x86_64 version but not the i386
> version.  Now I want to 
> update the i386 package but to reinstall the x86_64
> package at the same time 
> so any /usr/bin or /usr/sbin files get the correct
> version installed.
> -- 
> Gene
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