--- No Spam <nospam420@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --- Hal Wine <hal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > although even with two different versions of package installed, it > might still be potentially error prone. i'd want it to fail on an > erase or update operation that didn't specify the version, rather > than > unpredictably operate on one or the other installations. but i'm not > sure whether or not that's the case. i'll look into that. it does the right thing. i can install multiple times as long as the version is different, and if i try to erase without specifying the version number, it properly complains that there are multiple packages: [root@frijole0 root]# rpm -q wmtestpkg1 wmtestpkg1-1.0-1 wmtestpkg1-2.0-1 [root@frijole0 root]# rpm -e wmtestpkg1 error: "wmtestpkg1" specifies multiple packages at which point the answer is to either erase with the version number, or it could be forced with --allmatches. > > >>BTW, what command would you envision using to remove a specific > > >>instance of your package? > > >> > > >> ? rpm -e package > > > > rpm -e package-3.0-1 > > but this wouldn't work if you had installed package-3.0-1 to two > separate locations via two different uses of --prefix with rpm -i. > maybe the answer to that ought to be simply "don't do that", and > indeed > i think you probably need to force it with --replacepkgs to get it to > work. i think i'm willing to live with this restriction. to install multiple times, you have to have different versions. i hadn't thought of that, and my initial tests were trying the same identically built package. thanks hal. so i can actually get this to work on both redhat and solaris. i wonder if i can somehow get debian to work now... - rich fromm __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
