--On Monday, November 07, 2005 2:27 PM -0600 Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Very possibly. The thing is, if Amarok uses MySQL, I am betting big
> that according to the FC distro comps.xml file, Amarok uses MySQL 3.x.
> When you updated, yum just did its best to get you up to date according
> the comps.xml file.
Does yum downgrade packages? I've installed RPMs with a higher version than
what's available from my configured repos (typically packages I've built
myself), and haven't seen yum try to replace them with down-level packages.
I'm suspecting that there's something fishy about the version information
in the installed package that caused yum to think the repo package was a
higher version. Was it installed from tarball, bypassing RPM, perhaps?
The installed pkg, mysql 4.1x was done from an RPM, but without yum.
You do bring out an important point. -y would not be that dangerous if YUM behaved. Yum *was* the culprit!
Thanks;
-nat
