Re: rpm -U *.rpm and installed packages

[Alexander Jolk <alexj buf com>]

seth vidal wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 09:30, Alexander Jolk wrote:

> > I'm doing a rpm -U *.rpm in the directory, but if rpm finds
> > that at least one of the rpms is already installed, it will abort, not
> > installing anything.

> This is correct behavior. Remove the file of the package that you
> already have installed and run rpm -U *.rpm again.

While this behaviour might be correct for some cases, I believe it is
rather stupid for others.  Rpm has the capability to reorder packages
for installation, so I don't think I should be forced to do so myself. 
That's what rpm -i * is for, isn't it?  So if I want it to install
everything, how should I go about it?  Removing the already installed
rpms is not an option, because I want this to work from a mirror of
redHat's updates section that is accessed by many machines.  I'm afraid
I'll be forced to hack up a loop over all rpms, checking for each one in
turn whether it is installed myself.  Seems stupid since rpm does the
same thing after me, doesn't it?  I assumed sheepishly that rpm would
offer an option like '--ignore-installed'.

Alex