On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 11:57 -0800, oldman wrote:
This worries me a little bit. If you remove a package aren't
you
likely to remove identically named files from the newer package as
well?
I ask because I usually do a rpm -e --justdb <pkgname> as I
once found
myself without some services after deleting an old package.
I agree its not good to have multiple versions installed.
You could always do a refresh on the packages that remain behind. One
could put a "yumdownloader $pkg rpm --refresh $pkg in a loop for the
list of packages that are left installed.
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Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.