On 01/05/2012 04:01 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2012 06:17:17 John Doe wrote: >> How come a simple update of a a single package from CentOS update >> would "alter RPMDB outside of yum"...? > > The warning is generated by yum, saying that its own database of installed > packages does not match the rpm database. This basically means that sometime > back you have used rpm directly to install/remove some package, circumventing > yum. You are not supposed to install rpm packages behind yum's back. :-) > > The warning has nothing to do with the vsftpd package which is being updated > in this instance. It's rather yum performing the database check when the > transaction starts. > This can be avoided using "yum localinstall <package-filename>" from the location where that package is, instead of "rpm -ivh <package-filename>". -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant