Re: Updating packages with name changes

[Lenz Grimmer <lenz grimmer com>]

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Hi,

Jason Frisvold wrote:

> Update, not freshen?  Hrm..  I have the new files in a directory with
> up2date using that directory as a source.  However, up2date doesn't
> even show 4.1.14 as newer...  I must be missing something ...   :
> 
> [friz jake ~]$ rpm -q MySQL-server
> MySQL-server-4.1.13-0
> [friz jake ~]$ rpm -q --provides MySQL-server
> msqlormysql
> mysql-server
> mysql
> MySQL
> MySQL-server = 4.1.13-0
> [friz jake ~]$ rpm -qp --obsoletes
> /mnt/Linux/extras/RPMS/MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
> MySQL
> mysql
> mysql-server
> [friz jake ~]$ sudo rpm -Fvh
> /mnt/Linux/extras/RPMS/MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
> Password:

Strange. I assume that "--freshen" does not take obsoleting packages
into account and only looks for identical package names.

Did you try to do "rpm -Uhv
MySQL-server-standard-4.1.14-0.rhel4.i386.rpm" instead?

Bye,
	LenZ
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