11 Jun
2012
11 Jun
'12
4:32 p.m.
Johnny Hughes wrote: <snip>
When adding packages, Yum can do two things ... install or update ... and it does each differently.
<snip of much-appreciated explanation of how yum install/update/localinstall works>
The problem all along is that someone did a force removal of tar (at least from the rpm database) with a --nodeps switch, thus creating a system with missing dependencies.
<snip> Johnny, here's a question: what's the yum d/b - /var/lib/yum/yumdb, and how's it different than the rpm d/b?
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