I hate seeing the RPMDB altered message when doing yum updates!
Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================= Install 1 Package Upgrade 1 Package Total size: 309 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
For that reason, I tell sysadmins when installing or upgrading rpms to use:
yum -y install <rpm file>
and to use
yum -y remove <rpm name>
to remove the rpm you want.