Re: Will update to redHat 7.1 delete non-rpm software?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:13:02PM -0400, Statux wrote:
> No. It will only overwrite files that are being installed via RPM, should
> it apply. Think about it.. how would the installation process know what is
> non-RPM? All it is, is a bunch of random files, etc :)

I haven't tried it yet, but supposedly checkinstall (CheckInstall?)
can stuff non-rpm, non-deb stuff into your rpm database.

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Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS

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