Re: rpm -U odd behavior

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 4:44 PM, marks wrote:

> I still wonder why the implementation of an upgrade (-U) would run the
> newer packages pre and post scripts and then run the older packages
> preun/postun scripts.  I suppose there could be a concern that if the
> newer package fails to install correctly the upgrade process is  
> halted and
> since the older package was never removed the system has remained
> unchanged.

Install needs to be done before remove in order to minimize
the amount of time that librarys and files are unavailable.

73 de Jeff