f20 - gedit

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Dec 20 13:28:12 UTC 2013


On 12/20/2013 08:02 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:42:49 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I tend to forget about rpm itself.  Actually, when I DID use it, yum
>> would get upset,
> It doesn't. Yum warns that the RPM database has been modified by a tool
> other than Yum, but you're free to ignore that warning. Yum maintains
> a few own databases (see e.g. "yum history") in addition to the RPM db,
> and for packages installed/removed with plain "rpm", it won't be able
> to track them for features such as "yum history undo …".

I did eventually figure that out.  Still, I try for peace and harmony on 
my systems. ;)

Just got in the habit of yum localinstall, as that does the job of 
making sure you have all the dependencies right.



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