On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:57 -0800, oldman wrote: > This worries me a little bit. If you remove a package aren't you > likely to remove identically named files from the newer package as > well? > > I ask because I usually do a rpm -e --justdb <pkgname> as I > once found > myself without some services after deleting an old package. I agree its not good to have multiple versions installed. You could always do a refresh on the packages that remain behind. One could put a "yumdownloader $pkg rpm --refresh $pkg in a loop for the list of packages that are left installed. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
