On 5 Sep, Colin Humphreys wrote: > <snip> > > (as an aside to Mr Humpherys) > > Querying rpm directly for it's version doesn't necessarily give you any > > information regarding the package version. > > Sure. It will teach me for not reading the whole thread and just > replying to: > > > There appears to be no way to get rpm to tell you what version it is, > > I think I answered that one.....:) Package versions in rpm are nasty, > especially with epochs and things. > > rpm -qi rpm > > might be better.
Thanks. Cunning sprinkling of option information through the rpm man page fooled me again. Anyway, is there any way to replace the 4.1.0 XFree86 files with the 4.2.0 ones? > [root@posh X]# rpm -Uh --nodeps --replacefiles XF* font* free* > ########################################### [100%] > package XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-52.01 is already installed > package fontconfig-0.0.1.020826.1330-3 is already installed > [root@posh X]# which mkfontdir > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir > [root@posh X]# which ttmkfdir > /usr/bin/ttmkfdir > > However, things still appear to be doubly installed: > > [root@posh X]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86 | sort > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-4.2.0-52.01 > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-52.01 > XFree86-compat-libs-4.0.3-2 > XFree86-devel-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-jpfonts-2.1-24 > XFree86-libs-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-libs-4.2.0-52.01 > XFree86-tools-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-twm-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-xdm-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-25 > XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-52.01 > > I see that it appears not to have installed any of the > -4.2.0-8.i386.rpm files, either: XFree86-100dpi-fonts > XFree86-75dpi-fonts XFree86-devel XFree86-tools > XFree86-twm XFree86-xdm > > Any idea why that would be? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
