RE: [Yum] deploying and maintaining linux networks howto

["Martinez, Carlos R" <Carlos R Martinez schwab com>]

Yes, I'm fully aware of this and am with you on that it is not a good thing
to force installations but this RPM in particular that I'm installing is
provided by the hardware vendor and it just so happens to overwrite the same
file in the kernel RPM package.  The only option really is to force it.  I
really like this YUM utility it is a very nice tool.  Any work on just
allowing a download option of RPM's?  So something similar to what the
up2date utility provides for the RedHat Network.

-----Original Message-----
From: seth vidal [mailto:skvidal phy duke edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:04 PM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: RE: [Yum] deploying and maintaining linux networks howto

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 20:57, Martinez, Carlos R wrote:
> So I have a custom RPM or two that I normally need to "--force" to
> install/update due to it is overwriting a file that is owned by another
RPM.
> Basically I have custom NIC drivers that I've created RPM packages for and
> they need to override the drivers that are installed by default by the
> kernel RPM packages.
> 
> Any suggestions??
> 

oh, no. --force is BAD BAD BAD in general and yum does not and will not
support such options in the foreseeable future.

if you want to break your dependencies feel free, but don't expect
things to work sanely afterward.

-sv




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