On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 14:09 -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote: > mnisay wrote: > > > True, but I was agreeing with the statement that `"yum install" was > > not a straightforward inverse of "yum remove"', which is true. > > > >> The inverse of a "yum remove" may require specifying multiple > >> packages for a "yum install". Consider packages a, b, and c, where b > >> and c are dependent on a. "yum remove a" will remove all three > >> packages, and "yum install b c" would be needed to get them all back > >> again. > >> > >> Paul. > > > Consider what happens if part of /usr/lib/i18n disappears and I want to > get them back from glibc and glibc-common. The --force option on rpm is > about the only way to shoe-horn things back in. Does "rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs glibc*-blah.rpm" not do the job? Is --force *really* necessary? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
