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Re: rpm bookkeeping

Subject: Re: rpm bookkeeping
From: "D. Stimits" <stimits@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 14:41:17 -0600
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Juri Haberland wrote:
D. Stimits wrote:

I just did a cvs update to 2.4.19, from 2.4.19-rc2. Apparently the cmd rpms are the same version, without any changes. Even so, I did a make cmd and ran "rpm -Uvh *" on the i386 subdirectory, most simply said the


FWIW: better use 'rpm -Fhv *.rpm'.
'-U' would install every rpm that is currently not installed or older.
'-F' just updates currently installed rpms if newer versions are available.

Cheers,
Juri

If there was a new rpm, I wanted it installed, so the -U was ok in this case. I do use -F when I only want update if previously present.


D. Stimits, stimits AT idcomm.com


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