Re: Replacing specific files in a new version using upgrade

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Lakshmi V wrote:

> Hi all
> I saw in the mailing list that it is not possible to do patch  
> management (i.e. replace only specific files in the installed  
> product). but let us say I have installed product A of version 0.1  
> and now I saw that some files are erraneous and I have to replace  
> them in version 0.2. Now I cannot use -ivh <> --replacefiles  
> because, it installs the products and just replaces the files that  
> was originally installed. The advantage here is that my new version  
> can have only the files that I wanted to change, but managing the  
> upgrade and uninstall is messy later. So it seems that I have to  
> use -Uvh but this requires that my new version rpm should also have  
> all the files of the original rpm otherwise it just removes it. Is  
> there any way that I can upgrade the product with the new version  
> and package this new version'ed rpm with my necessary files alone  
> and install it without uninstalling the previously installed ones ?

Nope, there isn't a way.

rpm is a package manager, installs/manages files from packages, does  
not install/manage files not in installed packages.

73 de Jeff