On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 23:35 -0600, Satish Balay wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Dave Jones wrote: > > > There's also an --oldpackage option, but from the manpage, it seems > > that's only for upgrade's, not install's. > > Actually 'rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel.rpm' works! I've used it before. Yes, and shame on you Dave for suggesting to anybody that they should use --force! ;-) Really, we should be doing everything possible to discourage the use of --force and --nodeps unless absolutely necessary - use of these options often leads to screwed-up systems. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
