How to force yum to uninstall a package when you change it’s name
By Joao
Use the obsoletes tag in the specfile. This will cause “package-oldname” to be uninstalled before installing “package-renamed”.
Name: package-renamed
Obsoletes: package-oldname
Common yum commands
By Joao
List available repositores
yum repolist
Search by package name (case insensitive)
yum list "*package*"
List files inside a repository package (regardless if that package has been installed)
repoquery --list <PACKAGE_NAME>



October 29th, 2009