Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I said before, rpm does have the capability to install 2 different
versions of a package simulantaneously. Here's how it works, to the best of
my knowledge.
User interface:
Rpm differentiates between installing a package and upgrading a package.
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:42:15PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
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|So rpm's method of upgrading is the same as dpkg -i, whereas dpkg has nothing
|equivilant to rpm's method of just installing a package.
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|Oh and by the way, this user interface tends to confuse new users (at least
|it did me) who
Anthony Wong wrote:
|Oh and by the way, this user interface tends to confuse new users (at least
|it did me) who accidentially install many versions of the same package
|because they arn't aware they should be upgrading it instead.
Because you already have the Debian way in your mind when
Hi!
Joey Hess writes:
JH What happens if you try to install version bar of a package while
JH version foo of that same package, which contains files of the
JH same name, is installed? Rpm will happily overwrite version foo's
JH files.
Yes.
JH What happens if you then remove version foo?
As I said before, rpm does have the capability to install 2 different
versions of a package simulantaneously. Here's how it works, to the best of
my knowledge.
User interface:
Rpm differentiates between installing a package and upgrading a package.
Installing a package (rpm -i) simply unpacks
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