update to F11 with yum

Alan Evans ame.fedora at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 17:02:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Alan Evans wrote:
>>
>> How do you do that?
>>
>> I have a small number of 32-bit packages on my desktop. If I try to
>> remove, for example, glibc.i686, then it tries to take
>> basesystem.noarch with it as a dependency!
>>
>
> rpm -e glibc.i686 --nodeps
> (use with care...)

Well, sure, but that leaves the dependency tree deliberately broken.
Who knows what silly problems that will cause with some far-future yum
invocation or upgrade?

I was rather thinking that he had done it more legitimately.




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