On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 15:21:09 +0530,
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Chris G wrote:
>Is there any way to force yum to re-install a package that has got
>corrupted (well, *may* have got corrupted)?
>
>Obviously I could do:-
>
> yum remove <package>
> yum install <package>
>
>but it seems like there ought to be an easier way to do it.
yum 3.2-11 (in Rawhide) has a reinstall option but the latest yum in
Fedora 8 doesn't. You could file a RFE and request an update if it is
not already done.
In the short term you can use the --force option on rpm to do this.