Forcing YUM to install devel packages

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:41 -0500, kevin.j.lisciotti at jpmchase.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I currently have an issue with Evolution 2.0.2 where I can't sent mail due
> to some SMTP errors but receive mail just fine. After researching the
> problem, I found that it was fixed in 2.0.3 and higher. I was going to
> manually install the current development version 2.1.4, but after seeing
> the dependencies list I quickly changed my mind.
> 
> Is there a way to tell yum to install the development version while
> satisfying the long list of dependencies? As an interim fix I am using
> Kontact from KDE, but would like to return to Evolution.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 

sure.
temporarily enable the fedora-devel repo (or the fedora-updates-testing
repo) and use it to install the updated Evolution package (assuming the
one desired is in that repo).

> Kevin
>