Re: Bad rpmdb, where'd this come from?

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:50:39PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Tom Diehl <tdiehl@rogueind.com> writes:
> 
> >> Then running rpm -UvhF *.rpm on what was left
> >
> > I realize this is will not fix your problem but I am courious why you specify
> > -U and -F on the same command line? I would think -U would override -F.
> 
> Probably a miss usage.  My reasoning was that I wasn't sure -F alone
> would get rid of previous versions.  It has been working for me but
> I've only used it in /var/spool/up2date after downloading updates so
> if U is overriding F it wouldn't have bitten me in that environment.  
> 
> Thanks for the heads up, it looks like the -U would indeed override
> the -F which would probably be a `bad thing' in most circumstances.

FYI: --freshen and --update are identical in behavior *except* that
--freshen will not attempt to install a package that is not already
installed. Specifically, both options erase previously installed
packages.

73 de Jeff

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