Re: Yum 3.2.11 released

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:05 +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> 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
> 

you don't need to do that:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --replacepkgs --replacefiles 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".

downgrade ain't gonna happen.

-sv