Re: Update issue - tar package problem?

[m.roth@xxxxxxxxx]

Johnny Hughes wrote:
<snip>
>>> When adding packages, Yum can do two things ... install or update ...
>>> and it does each differently.

<snip of much-appreciated explanation of how yum
install/update/localinstall works>
>>>
>>> The problem all along is that someone did a force removal of tar (at
>>> least from the rpm database) with a --nodeps switch, thus creating a
>>> system with missing dependencies.
<snip>
Johnny, here's a question: what's the yum d/b - /var/lib/yum/yumdb, and
how's it different than the rpm d/b?

       mark

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