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

[Sam Varshavchik]

Joe Zeff writes:

> 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?

I thought that it was an RPM bug, but it's really a package bug, but it's  
really really something that RPM should handle, but does not, so it should  
really be an RPM bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976420


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