In a message dated: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:03:20 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
> If they were not installed via RPM, RPM will generally not know about them.
Is there ever a case where RPM will know about something *not*
installed via RPM? Is there some way to update the database with
package info about something installed from source that I'm not aware
of? That would be really cool, IMO!
> No. Don't use the "--force" switch.
>
> I see lots of people saying they "--force" things all the time. These are
>usually the same people that complain that package managers don't work.
>They don't realize they are creating their own problems.
While I agree with you in general, if you know all the dependancies for this
package are installed (probably from source) in the same place rpm would've
installed them (okay, this is *highly* unlikely :) then you should be okay.
But I think Ben's right, if you have to --force something, then that
usually means that you should re-think what you're about to do and
consider some other alternative.
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Paul
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