Eugenio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When are we going to solve the problem with the -F feature of rpm saying
> "package <whatever> is already installed", and refusing to "freshen" all
> the other new packages given as arguments?
> 
> That is, if you do "rpm -Fvh x*" and at least one of the packages
> begining with "x" is not new, the command will not update the others.
> 
> This makes it very hard to update system every night, making the
> debugging of cooker much more cumbersome and problematic, not to say
> "manual" also ;-).

uh? why not doing:

for i in x*
do
rpm -Fvh $i
done


-- 
Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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