[Yum-devel] [PATCH/RFC] Prepare for skipbroken/Replace already_seen

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:29 +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> > 
> > I am a bit unsure how this implementation would cope with reinstalls 
> > (adding install and remove transaction members for the same package) but 
> > IIRC these are not supported in yum anyway and it is currently not 
> > possible to do such things even from the yum shell. I also guess that 
> > some other code pieces would need work to support reinstalls.
> > 

I've been working on the reinstalls myself. I added 3 lines to install()
and to the TransactionMember checks and it lets me add them to the
transaction properly, however, rpm throws a fit unless you tell it
you're doing a re-install transaction.

So we want to keep this working :). My goal is allow reinstalls through
either a plugin with a 'reinstall' command, through a reinstall config
option or just using the shell.

-sv