Jack Neely wrote: > We consider rpm -i only useful for the install path where there are no > other kernel modules of that name installed on the system. So, when no > previous versions of a specific kernel module are installed and we use > rpm -i to install one, there are no file conflicts. The package is > installed correctly. That may be the typical usage, but there's nothing about RPM that mandates this. Different versions of the same package can happily coexist as long as their files don't conflict. For an example of this, look no further than the practice of keeping older kernels around. In this case, the "upgrade" is performed with rpm -i (or its API equivalent); if rpm -U were used, the old kernel would be automatically removed. -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx ======================================================================== -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
