Is there a way to force an update/upgrade in yum?

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/01/2013 03:58 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> It's some kind of an RPM bug. I ran into this when upgrading from F18 to
> F19. The solution, on every box, was trivial. yum remove firefox, then
> yum install it. You'll be able to reinstall firefox just fine.
>

And that's what I finally did.

> There is no real conflict. Something in RPM is FUbared.

Is it a problem in rpm itself, or that particular package?  Is there a 
bugzilla on this?