xorg yum update uninstalls dell-nvidia rpm

[vincent at cojot.name]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jeff Wolfe wrote:

> John_Hull at dell.com wrote:
>> Tony is correct. xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL and the dell-nvidia RPM provide
>> several of the same files, so installing one will cause the other to get
>> uninstalled via up2date. If you run NVIDIA's installer, then upgrade
>> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL, the NVIDIA files get overwritten, and X will
>> usually cease to work.

I'm not using the dell-nvidia rpm's (I use the unpackaged NVidia 
installer) but why don't you just (after the xorg update).:
rpm -e devll-nvidia-XXX.rpm
rpm -ivh devll-nvidia-XXX.rpm

Shouldn't that re-install all of the files to their locations and keep the 
needed Mesa files (headers, etc...) at the same time?

Regards,

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