In regard to: Re: Invalid package name?, Albert Chin said (at 1:28pm on May...:
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:53:45AM -0500, Tim Mooney wrote:
I've personally had no problems installing multiple versions of a package
with the same name, but I'm using an older version of RPM. The only
area of difficulty is when you want to upgrade a particular instance
of a package.
What do you mean?
$ rpm -iv foo-1.1 # install to /opt/foo11
$ rpm -iv foo-man-1.1 # install to /opt/foo11/man
$ rpm -Uvh foo-1.2 # install to /opt/foo12 and remove foo-1.1
# but keep /opt/foo11/man
Is this going to be a problem?
No, as long as that's what you want to have happen. The problem happens
when you have e.g.
$ rpm -qa | egrep -i foo-
foo-1.1-1
foo-1.2-17
$ rpm -Uvh foo-1.3-1.i386.rpm
Now, which foo is getting upgraded to 1.3-1, 1.1-1 or 1.2-17? There's
the problem.
Tim
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