On 05/25/2015 07:48 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
On 5/25/2015 4:40 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On May 25, 2015, at 01:10, Kirk Bocek t004@kbocek.com wrote:
I'll reinstall chrony. But there *are* places I've needed to use nodeps. Mostly to manage inter-repo package incompatibilities.
You should look into the yum priorities option to ensure packages from different repos don't step on each other, however I'd consider any yum repository that requires you break your rpm database to be one to avoid.
It usually happens when I've wanted to change versions of the same software between repos and that software has been compiled differently. Usually audio-visual software. Yum install triggers a conflict and yum uninstall on the older package cascades a bunch of undesirable uninstalls. The only solution is rpm -e -nodeps followed by installing the newer package.
If you have a better solution, let me know.
If the new package fulfills all requirements as the old one, you can use "yum shell" to do both transactions at the same time.
$> yum shell
remove old-package install new-package ts run exit
-Thomas