Re: How to handle erasing an RPM that contains a mandatory file

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Friday, 27 October 2006, at 20:12:42 (+0200),
Jos Vos wrote:

> > According to the man page, --force is the same as --oldpackage
> > (I hope it really is).  [...]
> 
> AFAIK it is *not*.

mej talon ~/info >> rpm --help | grep force
  --force                          short hand for --replacepkgs --replacefiles

HTH,
Michael

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