yum - lack of features

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Jun 28 11:17:14 UTC 2005


Dan Track wrote:

>Hi
>
>Can anyone tell me why yum lacks the following ( or maybe it me):
>
>1) Can't force a reinstall of package
>2) Can't force a package to install if there are some minor dependencies
>  
>

These are bad things to do and shouldnt be ever supported by yum

>3) Can't fetch a package
>
You want yumdownloader

http://blog.sethdot.org/index.cgi/233.html

regards
Rahul




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