Re: RPM doesn't do as it is told.

[Vidiot <vidiot cm nu>]

>It worked fine for me. Have you tried rpm -Uvh --nodeps, since your
>problem seems to be on of dependencies?

I didn't.  Another tip got it working another way.

>> importantly, when is rpm going to be fixed so that --force really does force
>> the update?
>
>RTFM. Excerpted directly from the man pages:
>
>       --force
>              Same as using  --replacepkgs,  --replacefiles,  and
>              --oldpackage.

Based on this definition, which I did look up when I ran into trouble, does
say to replace the package, which it did not.  So, forcing it isn't as
forceful and one might think.

>       --oldpackage
>              Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an
>              older one.
>
>       --replacefiles
>              Install  the  packages  even  if they replace files
>              from other, already installed, packages.
>
>       --replacepkgs
>              Install the packages  even  if  some  of  them  are
>              already installed on this system.
>
>       --nodeps
>              Don't do a dependency check  before  installing  or
>              upgrading a package.

I didn't see this.  I stopped at --force.  One would think that a --force
would also tell it to ignore dependencies, which it doesn't.

Instead of --force, maybe it should be --nudge. :-)

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