On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:37, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:51:31 +0200 > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't believe in this features, since all available docs tells me > > there is no such feature ;-). > > Good for you Buchan because it does not work in this situation. > Skip works fine if there is a upgrade pkg avaiable that you do not want > installed, but not to override pkg removal. > > What will work, where there are pkgs which will be removed but that you > wish to retain, is 'urpmi --auto-select --allow--nodeps --allow-force'
Except that was no use in the given situation, because I ended up with the new Kerberos installed along with my old Evolution package, which really truly didn't work any more (it needed a rebuild against Kerberos). You can't assume that when a package asks to remove another, it's not right to do so. -- adamw
