On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:45 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to tell yum to reinstall a package that is already > installed, with affecting any dependant packages ? A remove followed by > reinstall will of course remove all dependant packages which I don't want. > > I actually think of the reinstall option available in synaptic with APT. > I've just updated from FC3 to FC4 and I think a few packages could do > with being reinstalled to fix some minor niggles. I had similar issues > when I went from FC2 to FC3 and the reinstall feature in synaptic was > very useful. I don't think yum can do it but you could download the packages (they might even be in your yum cache) and use rpm to reinstall it/them: # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs first.rpm second.rpm ... Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
