Re: [CentOS] re-installing a package without removing it?

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.