Is there an easy way to force YUM to reinstall a set of packages?

[Kevin Kofler]

David Hagood <david.hagood <at> gmail.com> writes:
> And please don't say "You can use APT if you want to" - the repos don't
> support APT, they don't have the APT metadata, and so "using" APT would
> be like "using" an old rotary dial phone on the cellular network.

Not true, APT-RPM has been supporting yum repository metadata (repomd) since 
March 2006! So you can use it with all the yum repositories out there just 
fine.

The latest development version also has support for the new fast sqlite 
metadata supported by Fedora 8's yum, but this is only a performance 
optimization, not a requirement, the XML format is still supported by all the 
repositories out there.

        Kevin Kofler