On 06/11/2012 09:32 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > <snip> >>>> When adding packages, Yum can do two things ... install or update ... >>>> and it does each differently. > <snip of much-appreciated explanation of how yum > install/update/localinstall works> >>>> The problem all along is that someone did a force removal of tar (at >>>> least from the rpm database) with a --nodeps switch, thus creating a >>>> system with missing dependencies. > <snip> > Johnny, here's a question: what's the yum d/b - /var/lib/yum/yumdb, and > how's it different than the rpm d/b? > http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumDB -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120611/07f377c6/attachment-0005.sig>