Re: Yum 3.2.11 released

seth vidal wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>   

I see. Thanks for the update. I'll be using this version for testing 
servers only then.

>> There is a bug though. Reinstall from a local rpm doesn't work.
> reinstall doesn't work like that. It reinstalls the installed package,
> it doesn't act on the local package.
>
> See what I mean?
>
>   

There are times when reinstall from a local package is desirable.
For instance, lets say I want to use latest official fwbuilder package, 
which comes in rpm package from sourceforge, but doesn't offer any yum 
repository. So i download *fwbuilder*.rpm and I can install it just fine 
with "yum install *fwbuilder*.rpm", processing dependencies as needed. 
Sometime later, I accidently delete a file belonging to libfwbuilder. I 
still have the original package, so I can do something like :

rpm -e --nodeps libfwbuilder
rpm -ivh libfwbuilder*.rpm

(is there a command line for rpm reinstall?) It would be nice if I can 
use yum reinstall for that. Or (even better) something that can do "I 
want to install this package, install/reinstall/upgrade/downgrade if you 
have to".

Regards,

Fajar

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