Can you force yum to ignore dependencies?

[General Schvantzkoph]

How do you force yum to ignore dependencies? I'm trying to do an update
and it fails because of a dependency in the freenx package. I don't use
freenx so I don't care if I break it. I also can't remove freenx
because there is something wrong with a script,

Running Transaction
error: %preun(freenx-0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

Removed: freenx.noarch 0:0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at
Complete!

[Lenard]

Post by General Schvantzkoph
How do you force yum to ignore dependencies? I'm trying to do an update
and it fails because of a dependency in the freenx package. I don't use
freenx so I don't care if I break it. I also can't remove freenx
because there is something wrong with a script,
Running Transaction
error: %preun(freenx-0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Removed: freenx.noarch 0:0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at
Complete!

Err... not that I'm aware of, but rpm can(use with extreme care);

# rpm -Uvh <the package> --nodeps

[decrepit]

Isn't it possible to exclude a package from the update? I thought yum
could do that. Wouldn't that achieve what you want.

Post by Lenard

Post by General Schvantzkoph
How do you force yum to ignore dependencies? I'm trying to do an update
and it fails because of a dependency in the freenx package. I don't use
freenx so I don't care if I break it. I also can't remove freenx
because there is something wrong with a script,
Running Transaction
error: %preun(freenx-0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Removed: freenx.noarch 0:0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at
Complete!

Err... not that I'm aware of, but rpm can(use with extreme care);
# rpm -Uvh <the package> --nodeps

[General Schvantzkoph]

Post by decrepit
Isn't it possible to exclude a package from the update? I thought yum
could do that. Wouldn't that achieve what you want.

Post by Lenard

Post by General Schvantzkoph
How do you force yum to ignore dependencies? I'm trying to do an update
and it fails because of a dependency in the freenx package. I don't use
freenx so I don't care if I break it. I also can't remove freenx because
there is something wrong with a script,
Running Transaction
error: %preun(freenx-0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Removed: freenx.noarch 0:0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at Complete!

Err... not that I'm aware of, but rpm can(use with extreme care);
# rpm -Uvh <the package> --nodeps

Not if you want to update the package that has a dependency problem. I
can't update Xorg because freenx has a dependency on the current Xorg
package, and I can't remove freenx because it's uninstaller is broken.

[Lenard]

Post by General Schvantzkoph

Post by decrepit
Isn't it possible to exclude a package from the update? I thought yum
could do that. Wouldn't that achieve what you want.

Post by Lenard

Post by General Schvantzkoph
How do you force yum to ignore dependencies? I'm trying to do an update
and it fails because of a dependency in the freenx package. I don't use
freenx so I don't care if I break it. I also can't remove freenx because
there is something wrong with a script,
Running Transaction
error: %preun(freenx-0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Removed: freenx.noarch 0:0.4.4-6.rhfc4.at Complete!

Err... not that I'm aware of, but rpm can(use with extreme care);
# rpm -Uvh <the package> --nodeps

Not if you want to update the package that has a dependency problem. I
can't update Xorg because freenx has a dependency on the current Xorg
package, and I can't remove freenx because it's uninstaller is broken.

Possible Solution, download the source freenx rpm from;

ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.3/extras/SRPMS/freenx-0.4.4-1.centos4.src.rpm

Build the binary (warning the spec file is oddly named, freenx.spec.extras)
Then install the "new" version; rpm -Uvh freenx*.rpm --force
Then you should be able to remove it; rpm -e freenx

The differences in the spec files may make the removal possible.