I allready needed to reenter twice the openpkg build -Ua > upgrad.sh after execution exited with error from previos upgrad.sh version.
Each time I generate a new upgrad.sh script, the sequence is altered. Could it be that openpkg is unable to decide the apropriate order to upgrade all packages from an instalation ? Thanks again, Alex Citando Michael van Elst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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, > -- > Michael van Elst > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree." > ______________________________________________________________________ > The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org > User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- ATIX Tecnologia e Com Ltda Tel.: +55-(11) 4667-5900 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
