Paul Howarth wrote:
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.
From the man page:
--force
Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage.
So for a package that's currently installed it's less typing.
