On Monday, April 02, 2007 12:54 am Gene Heskett wrote:
I haven't tried that, but using yumex 1.92 as a last ditch, I attempted to have it update only azureus, but it cannot be co-erced into ignoring the openoffice-2.2 I put in a few days ago, and insists on overwriting it with 2.0.4, so I gave that up too. OOo-2.2 is sweet, just ignore the jre in the tarball and that all fits rather nicely.
Well, I found two ways of handling that particular problem: 1) Update to the latest version, and then install the downloaded version overtop of it; 2) Create your own RPM package (in this case, probably with the same name as the Extras package), and install it. Yum always uses the package with the highest version number unless dependencies force it not to (which I think is a MAJOR bug in Yum itself...).