On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 11:54 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> I'm looking at this as an opporunity to learn something about RPM
> which bugged me for a while - in Debian, aptitude and apt-get provide
> options to re-install existing package without removing it.
> 
> If I understand this correctly, then "rpm -i --force
> drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos.rpm" would re-install the package. Is this
> correct?
> 
> The rpm solution would require me to find and manually download the
> rpm file. Is there a way to do this through yum?

Not as described, although you can use yumdownloader in yum-utils to
pull down the package, and a plugin can be written for yum that allows
this.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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