On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:55:22PM -0300, Alexander Belck wrote:
> Is this constant use of --force normal ?
The build tool will always use --force if it updates a package. This
asks rpm to do two things:
- to ignore if the package or a more recent version is already installed,
the build tool already takes care of this issue and may make
different decisisions.
- to overwrite files that may belong to different packages. Here it is
the OpenPKG developers who need to be careful that this is safe,
usually by ensuring that there are no such file conflicts between
packages.
> My poor expirience with rpm got to unstable rpm instalations when using --force.
The second point can lead to instabilities if the packages aren't
created carefully, but avoiding --force doesn't solve the problem
of broken packages :)
Greetings,
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Michael van Elst
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