yum - lack of features

Jeff Voskamp javoskam at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jun 28 19:21:46 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 14:09 -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote:
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>>mnisay wrote:
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>>>True, but I was agreeing with the statement that `"yum install" was 
>>>not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove"', which is true.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>The inverse of a "yum remove" may require specifying multiple 
>>>>packages for a "yum install". Consider packages a, b, and c, where b 
>>>>and c are dependent on a. "yum remove a" will remove all three 
>>>>packages, and "yum install b c" would be needed to get them all back 
>>>>again.
>>>>
>>>>Paul.
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>>>>
>>Consider what happens if part of /usr/lib/i18n disappears and I want to 
>>get them back from glibc and glibc-common.  The --force option on rpm is 
>>about the only way to shoe-horn things back in.
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>Does "rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs glibc*-blah.rpm" not do the
>job? Is --force *really* necessary?
>
>Paul.
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>
 From the man page:
    --force
              Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage.
So for a package that's currently installed it's less typing.




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