[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> > Wouldn't rpm -Uvh * be enough?
>
> No. -U will install a package even if it isn't already installed.
rpm -Fvh * should do, though. The only problem with rpm -F is that it
can't deal with packages that obsolete others (e.g. if you try upgrading
6.1 to rawhide, rpm -F won't install gcc over egcs).
LLaP
bero
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another caution with freshen is that newer versions of some
packages have new dependencies they never had before. i recall
doing a freshen with a set of new RPMS, and having one of the
freshens choke since it depended on (from memory) libpopt.a,
or something like that, a dependency the older version of the
package never had. and i had never installed libpopt.a.
other than fairly obvious cautions like these, does freshen
actually work, since i've heard ugly stories about it from
more than one source. thanks.
rday
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