Re: Rpm upgrade query

[shiva varma <shiv_varma47 yahoo co in>]

Hi.
  My requirement is, I would like to upgrade only file
A and want to retain file B. Is it possible?

Regards
Shiva
--- Jos Vos <jos xos nl> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:36:34PM +0100, shiva
> varma wrote:
> 
> > I now have an upgrade package dummy-1.0-1.rpm
> having a
> > new version of A.
> > I tried these commands:
> >  rpm -U dummy-1.0-1.rpm
> >  rpm -F dummy-1.0-1.rpm
> >  rpm -U --replacefiles dummy-1.0-1.rpm
> > 
> > All the commands replace file A but remove file B.
> > 
> > Any help so that file A gets upgraded and file B
> is
> > retained.
> > (Because of some size limit I do not want to have
> file
> > B in the upgrade package dummy-1.0-1.rpm)
> 
> This is in "normal use" not possible.  If you want
> separate
> upgrading, you should put files A and B in separate
> packages
> and maybe add some dependencies (dummya requires
> dummyb etc.,
> possibly with version numbers for version-specific
> relations).
> 
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