Is there an easy way to force YUM to reinstall a set of packages?

[david.hagood at gmail.com]

> David Hagood <david.hagood <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> And please don't say "You can use APT if you want to" - the repos don't
>> support APT, they don't have the APT metadata, and so "using" APT would
>> be like "using" an old rotary dial phone on the cellular network.
>
> Not true, APT-RPM has been supporting yum repository metadata (repomd)
> since
> March 2006! So you can use it with all the yum repositories out there just
> fine.
>

OK, now that is interesting: got any pointers on what the apt
configuration has to be to use YUM repos?