On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:

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>> 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?

> You have a good point.
> Any ideas anyone?

Lots, but they all end up either reinventing up2date or hacking yum and/or 
rpmlib. Not very appealing :-(

But then they actually did break "rpm -U" and "yum update", so maybe 
that's what we're bound to do after all anyway.

I wonder whether there's a hidden switch when building rpm to make it 
work right with z-stream tags. If there is, the CentOS folks haven't found 
it either... I'm going to check whether TUV's rpm binaries get it right,
unless someone beats me to it.

- Stephan

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