Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#221 closed enhancement (fixed)

Add yum-plugin-replace to available yum plugins

Reported by: Lewis Rosenthal Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: yum Version:
Severity: high Keywords:
Cc:

Description

yum-plugin-replace provides for swapping conflicting packages, either different ones or the same, but for different arches. Thus, it is possible to:

yum replace mysql --replace-with mysql51

without uninstalling the first package and then installing the replacement. This also works for packages which are "locked" by dependencies.

Source: https://github.com/iuscommunity/yum-plugin-replace

Presently, the only alternative to this is to use the yum shell to uninstall and then install, and even that is not as robust as yum-plugin-replace.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Silvan Scherrer, 8 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

it's in exp repo. have fun with it

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