Re: Yum 3.2.11 released

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 12:20 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Yum 3.2.11 is available and there are a lot of changes in this round:
> >
> >   
> 
> Hi Seth,
> Is this release intended to work with RHEL/C5?
> I still had "Error: None".
> Patch on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431144#c5 fixed it.
> 


There's more to this bug than just that. I've got a couple of
replicators that aren't fixed by your change.


> Reinstall is great! apt-get had this feature for a long time, I was 
> wondering when yum would support it :)
> 
> There is a bug though. Reinstall from a local rpm doesn't work. i.e :
> "yum reinstall yum" works, but "yumdownloader yum;yum reinstall 
> ./yum-3.2.11-1.fan.noarch.rpm" failed with :
> 
> No Match for argument: ./yum-3.2.11-1.fan.noarch.rpm
> Error: Problem in reinstall: no package matched to remove
> 
> The file is there, yumdownloader works as expected.

reinstall doesn't work like that. It reinstalls the installed package,
it doesn't act on the local package.

See what I mean?

-sv