On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:09:22AM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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. Yeah, I suck at userland. ;-) Dave
