[Yum] Replace python arch

[Clodoaldo Pinto]

2006/6/22, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu>:
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 16:22 -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
> > 2006/6/22, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu>:
> > > On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 13:09 -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
> > > > In a FC3 machine I have python.i386 installed and I want to replace it
> > > > with python.i686. The versions are the same:

> > > 1. upgrade to yum 2.4
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > 2. disable exactarch in your yum.conf then run the update of python,
> > > then turn it back on.
> >
> > exactarch was already disabled. Tried to replace python.i386 by
> > python.i686 in a FC5 system with yum 2.6.1 and exactarch disabled wiht
> > the similar results:

> ah ha
>
> I missed the 'versions are the same' part.
>
> sorry.
>
> you can't really do that with yum.
>
> just do:
>
>
> rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs filename filename filename

That worked. Thanks.

Regards, Clodoaldo