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

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 14:06 -0700, Neil Harkins wrote:
> On 3/14/07, seth vidal <[email protected]> wrote:
>         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
> 
> I think you misread something in my message?
> I'm not expecting yum to downgrade. That indeed would be silly.
> I'm trying to install something which requires a NEWER version 
> of something else previously installed. The newer version is
> available, 
> just not installed. 
> 
> Yum (2.4.3.1) is not smart enough to UPgrade that dependancy. 
> It tries to install the dependancy (presumedly because the command 
> line arg was "install", thus it tries that action on all dependent
> tasks?),
> which fails due to a conflict with the currently installed version.
> 

2.4.3.1? Where is that from?

-sv