Re: RPM difference between -I and -U

[Mike Baranski <mbaranski celito net>]

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OK, the last time I tried that, I got an error that the RPM database was 
already being used.  This led me to believe that you cannot call RPM 
recursively.

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 11:03 am, you wrote:
> This is the easiest way. I chose bind as my example RPM, but obviously you
> need to change it to yours....
>
> if [ `rpm -q bfind 2>/dev/null | wc -l` -gt 0 ] ; then echo "already
> exists" ; else echo "new install" ; fi
>
> Obviously you can replace the two echo statements with your rpm commands
> and anything else you want to do.
>
>
> Robin
>
> At 11:16 AM 29/01/02 -0500, you wrote:
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> >OK, here's our problem.  We have a software package installed at some
> >customers sites.  We send them new releases every now and then.  During
> > the setup for the new release we need to do:
> >
> >if (this is an upgrade)
> >         Do some stuff
> >elseif (this is a new install)
> >         Do some other stuff
> >endif
> >
> >How can I do this with RPM.  $1 is always 1, because the package name is
> > the same when we do a new relase, the versions just change.  How can I do
> > this? Can we tell if RPM was called with -I or -U, or is there a better
> > way?
> >
> >Mike.
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