[Yum] Yum 3.2.11 released
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 13 20:24:07 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:05 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> There are times when reinstall from a local package is desirable.
> For instance, lets say I want to use latest official fwbuilder package,
> which comes in rpm package from sourceforge, but doesn't offer any yum
> repository. So i download *fwbuilder*.rpm and I can install it just fine
> with "yum install *fwbuilder*.rpm", processing dependencies as needed.
> Sometime later, I accidently delete a file belonging to libfwbuilder. I
> still have the original package, so I can do something like :
>
> rpm -e --nodeps libfwbuilder
> rpm -ivh libfwbuilder*.rpm
>
you don't need to do that:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --replacepkgs --replacefiles libfwbuilder*.rpm
> (is there a command line for rpm reinstall?) It would be nice if I can
> use yum reinstall for that. Or (even better) something that can do "I
> want to install this package, install/reinstall/upgrade/downgrade if you
> have to".
downgrade ain't gonna happen.
-sv
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