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[Erwin Rol]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 08:32 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Erwin Rol wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 08:18 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> >> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Erwin Rol wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 11:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 21:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>>>> It affects my fresh installation of FC6 test1.
> >>>>
> >>>> D'oh!  Looks like the release candidate nfs-utils went out with Test 1.
> >>>> Sorry for the confusion.
> >>>>
> >>>> nfs-utils-1.0.8.rc4-1 == Test1
> >>>> nfs-utils-1.0.8-2 == rawhide
> >>>>
> >>>> So, force upgrade it, or remove nfs-utils and then install it again from
> >>>> rawhide.  There is already a bug on this.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe a stupid question , but how can i "force upgrade" with yum ?
> >>
> >> You can't. Use rpm from the command line.
> >
> > Maybe another stupid question, why can't yum do a force
> > update/upgrade/install ? I already needed it more than once due to
> > broken rawhide problems, like this one.
> 
> Because Seth has stated more than once he does not want to allow people to
> screw up their machines by allowing yum to do things like --nodeps or --force.

They can just as easy screw up their machine with rpm --nodeps or rpm
--force, or even worse by trying to use rm to get rid of collisions, so
that seems like a lame excuse to not implement it. 

> You should not be using these except in very rare instances anyway. What is so
> hard about typing rpm -Uvh --force nfs-utils-1.0.8-2-*?

Because i was thinking yum was the new update/install front end for rpm.
Also yum knows where to download the rpm files, so with rpm you first
have to "get" the rpm before you can fix things. 

But anyway i will manage to get things fixed, with or without yum.

- Erwin