RE: [Yum] deploying and maintaining linux networks howto

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 22:14, Martinez, Carlos R wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure I follow - yum downloads rpms now.

or do you mean just download the pkgs but don't update them?

-sv