So then it's better to do the -Uvh instead of the -Fvh?
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
>
> On 2001.01.18 Andrew George wrote:
> >
> > The gotcha is (of course there is one) that RPM dosn't handle dependancy
> > problems that well and you can run the command and just get a screenfull of
> > broken dependancy links thrown back at you for your trouble
> >
>
> Especially when package conventions have changed from 7.2 to cooker in the
> sense that a 7.2 package that was
>
> pack.x.y.z
> pack-devel.x.y.z
>
> now is split in libs and binaries and looks as:
>
> libpack.x.y.z
> libpack-devel.x.y.z
> pack.x.y.z
>
> So rpm -F only tries to update pack, and misses libpack-xxxxxxxx
>
>
