[Yum] Can Yum install multiple versions of the same RPM?

[Wayne Sweatt]

Seth,
The latter. Here are a few listings of the actual RPMs, and the  
header names match:

pathscale-2.3.1-0.x86_64.rpm
pathscale-2.4-0.x86_64.rpm
pathscale-2.4-ptools.x86_64.rpm
pathscale-2.5-ptools.x86_64.rpm
pathscale-3-0.ptools1.x86_64.rpm

pgi-5.2-4.x86_64.rpm
pgi-6.1-3.ptools2.x86_64.rpm
pgi-6.1-3.x86_64.rpm
pgi-6.1-5.ptools.x86_64.rpm
pgi-6.1-5.x86_64.rpm
pgi-6.2-4.ptools2.x86_64.rpm
pgi-6.2-4.ptools.x86_64.rpm

I have to honestly say that I haven't tried it, but I have had  
dependency errors with a few other locally built packages conflicting  
with FC provided versions with the same name (subversion comes to  
mind), and we had to change the names.

DO I need to use the installonly plugin/directive?

Thanks for your help.

On TuesdayMay 1, 2007, at 10:14 PM, seth vidal wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:35 -0600, Wayne Sweatt wrote:
>> If I have 4 or 5 versions of say pgi or intel compilers that I  
>> need to
>> make available on a compile server, and each version installs into  
>> it's
>> own directory tree, such as /opt/PGI/6.7.8 & /opt/PGI/6.7.9 , etc...
>> then can yum do this? Will it complain and/or try to upgrade?
>> Would I use installonly?
>> How do I do this?
>> There would be no conflict per se, and I've been doing this with  
>> rpm, and
>> wish to move to yum.
>
> How are the pkgs named? Are they named:
>
> pgi679-6.7.9-1
>
> or are they named:
> pgi-6.7.9-1
> pgi-6.7.8-1
>
> or something like that
>
> in either case there is a way to make them work, provided you're not
> installing them with rpm --force or any such silliness.
>
> -sv
>
>