On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Ram Prakash. R wrote:
> Hello,
> I have written an application in C which upgrades already running
> package. I do the following:
>
> rpmtsCreate()
> rpmtsAddInstallElement () /* with the upgrade flag set to 1 */
> rpmtsCheck()
> rpmtsOrder()
> rpmtsRun()
>
> The rpmtsRun function fails saying the package is already installed. How do I
> specify that I want to do a forced upgrade of the package in the C API?
The equivalent of --force in the C API is setting the right rpm problem
filter flags, basically:
int probFilter = 0;
...
probFilter |= RPMPROB_FILTER_REPLACEPKG;
probFilter |= RPMPROB_FILTER_REPLACEOLDFILES;
probFilter |= RPMPROB_FILTER_REPLACENEWFILES;
...
rpmtsRun(TS, NULL, (rpmprobFilterFlags)probFilter);
- Panu -
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