On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:

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>> Hi Troy,
>> 
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
>> 
>>> Matthias Schroeder wrote:
>>>> Tullio Macorini wrote:
>>>>> what is the newest rpm for CUPS in SL 4.5 ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.5.i386.rpm
>>>>> or
>>>>> cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.2.i386.rpm
>> 
>>>> I fear in the case of cups (and probably a few others) the only way out
>>>> is to build the rpm without the dist tag, so that yum and rpm recognize
>>>> that the package needs updating...
>> 
>>> Ugg ... thanks for letting us know.  For SL 4.6 we cleaned all these up (I
>>> really hope) but that doesn't clean up the errata in the other releases.
>>> I'll take a shot at cleaning this up, which might involve moving the older
>>> rpm's into the obsolete area.
>> 
>> But how to get these updates onto systems where the old packages are
>> already installed (other than manually, with --force)? Do I have to dig
>> out my old scripts from the pre yum aera?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>         Stephan
>> 
>
> You have a good point.
> Any ideas anyone?

Unfortunately, it can be done by hand only.
One can do:
rpm -e --nodeps --justdb <old>
yum -y -d 1 install <new>
I don't claim it is absolutely safe method.

>
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  Valery Mitsyn