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[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Erwin Rol wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 08:18 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Erwin Rol wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 21:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>>> It affects my fresh installation of FC6 test1.
>>>>> 
>>>>> D'oh!  Looks like the release candidate nfs-utils went out with Test 1.
>>>>> Sorry for the confusion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> nfs-utils-1.0.8.rc4-1 == Test1
>>>>> nfs-utils-1.0.8-2 == rawhide
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, force upgrade it, or remove nfs-utils and then install it again from
>>>>> rawhide.  There is already a bug on this.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe a stupid question , but how can i "force upgrade" with yum ?
>>> 
>>> You can't. Use rpm from the command line.
>> 
>> Maybe another stupid question, why can't yum do a force
>> update/upgrade/install ? I already needed it more than once due to
>> broken rawhide problems, like this one.
>
> Because Seth has stated more than once he does not want to allow people to
> screw up their machines by allowing yum to do things like --nodeps or 
> --force.

But this isn't about --force, it's about rpm -U --oldpackage. IIRC 
Seth wasn't *that* opposed about possibility of allowing downgrading 
to specific version which is what this case is about, it's just that 
nobody has done any work to support downgrading.

 	- Panu -