Re: bug? concerning "install" needing to "upgrade" dependancies...

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:15 -0700, Neil Harkins wrote:
> 
> Hi. This appears to be a bug. I'm trying to install certain packages, 
> which have dependancies that are *specific versions* of packages 
> higher than those already installed. Because the dependancy check 
> fails, yum tries to "install", which fails due to conflicts. 
> 
> It seems the correct behavior would be for yum to figure out that the
> version 
> is what's wrong, not non-existence, and automatically do an "upgrade" 
> of those components, even though the command line was "install", 
> as we're operating on a depedancy tree. 
> 


yum will not ever downgrade a component on an install. that's extremely
dangerous behavior. If you have a version of something which requires an
older version either: 
1. build the thing against the newer version
2. provide a compat- pkg to provide the old dep

-sv