x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, seth vidal wrote:

> yum doesn't force anything.
>
> there is, at no time, the force options used in yum, at all
>
> where did you get this idea?

How does it manage to install rpms which install files already 
installed by other RPMs then?

'rpm' itself wouldn't allow this without the force argument, also 
whatever way apt-get uses librpm it allows librpm to raise the error 
in exact same way as if rpm had been used without the force argument. 
With Yum OTOH there are no errors and the rpm is installed - hence 
the reasonable conclusion that it specifies whatever librpm 
equivalent of 'force' - if it's due to something else, then the 
user-visible effect at least is identical.

I wish yum wouldn't do that.

regards,
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