[CentOS] yum warning...

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

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>".

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