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

Fri Dec 7 09:46:25 UTC 2007
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>


Amos Shapira wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just noticed that the file /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk, which
> belongs to package drbd-8.0.6-1.el5.centos, is missing from one of my
> test machines:
> 
> # rpm --verify drbd
> S.5....T c /etc/drbd.conf
> missing     /etc/ha.d/resource.d/drbddisk
> 
> 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?

you can always "yum install synaptic" and do your stuff with 
synaptic/apt (it's in rpmforge)
that's the only thing I ever use yum for ;-)