[Yum] preupgrade stuck

[David Timms]

Gerry Reno wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>> If you don't want to uninstall orphans, I think you could rpm -e 
>> --justdb (from memory), so that they stay installed during the 
>> upgrade, but then rpm reinstall --justdb afterwards.
> I was just considering 'rpm -e --justdb --nodeps PKGS' if I can figure 
> out the list of packages.
> 
> Never heard of rpm reinstall.
No that was a bit of oversimplification ;-)
Perhaps more like:
$ rpm -q glglobe
$ yumdownloader glglobe  (same version hopefully)
# rpm -e --nodeps --justdb glglobe
---
# rpm -Uvh --justdb glglobe-x-y-x.arch.rpm
$ rpm -V glglobe

DaveT.