[Yum] Two yum versions at once?

[Cliff Kent]

 >> how did you install the other yum?
 >>
 >> they have conflicting files, it seems to me that you only could have
 >> done this via --force.

I don't recall exactly and don't have exact notes. But, I don't use 
--force without a lot of convincing. I my humble experience --force is bad.

I got the yum-2.0.4-20031205 version as a manual download. I can't say 
for sure what rpm command was used to install it. Checking my yum-list 
archive, it seems to have been in response to your announcement of a new 
daily build:

Subject: [Yum] 2.0.X daily release
Date: 12/05/2003 03:36 AM

Contrary to what I said in my first post, I can't find any notes of a 
yum problem at that time. I was just checking out a daily build and 
didn't have any problems with it. I doubt I'd have used --force that 
time without a reply on this list.

The second version is in the yum.log file:
...
02/13/04 16:53:51 Updated: yum 2.0.5-1.fd.fr.noarch
...

There were quite a few other updates in that run.

On that box all runs of "yum update" are manual.

I don't manually do "yum update yum" first. Is it time to start?

Today's "yum update" run is the first since 02/13/04.

Does that help?

Cliff Kent