On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Scot Mc Pherson wrote: > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 08:56 am, James Olin Oden wrote: > Well understand what --force does. Its a combination of 3 other options. I > install two versions of a few different pieces of software, both of which I > want declared in the same database. I also want to make sure that I am not > over-writing files when I install different versions in parallel. I therefore > do NOT use --force, but I use --oldpackage instead which allows me to install > the software in parallel but it still reports to me if files conflict. > > Not telling you that you are wrong, just that there is more that just brute > force to --force. Point taken. I basically use force in development quite a bit, where I am updating a package, installing, seeing what broken, fixing that, re-installing without EVR changed using --force, loop. I never use --force on production systems (well unless you consider my desktop a production system, but definitions get really loose at that point. > > man rpm and search for --force to see which 3 options it constitutes. > Looks like I could use --replacepkgs in my development phase. Thanks...james > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
