[CentOS] java-1.4.2-sun-compat

This is not specifically a CentOS question but it relates to a problem I 
  am having on CentOS-3.  I though someone here might have come across 
something similar before.

I use the JPackage provided java-1.4.2-sun-compat but it has recently 
switched arch from noarch to i586.  Yum understandably refuses to 
upgrade this package.

Should I bother with yum or just upgrade it manually?

John.

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John Newbigin
Computer Systems Officer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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