On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:58 AM, shiva varma wrote:
Hi.
My requirement is, I would like to upgrade only file
A and want to retain file B. Is it possible?
It's not possible to upgrade, but it is possible to install
a new version of A from another pkg that will overwrite
the previous version of A, causing it to go into the state
"replaced".
That being said, the far far better and maintainable solution
is to create 2 new packages, one that contains file A, the
other that contains file B, and then release the pair of
packages to upgrade the previous package that contained both A and B.
The reason is that rpm manages packages, not files, and you will
be headed for a nightmarish set of command line overrides and
confusing behavior if you try to replace only part of another
package without clearly splitting the original package into 2 new
packages
first.
73 de Jeff
Regards
Shiva
--- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:36:34PM +0100, shiva
varma wrote:
I now have an upgrade package dummy-1.0-1.rpm
having a
new version of A.
I tried these commands:
rpm -U dummy-1.0-1.rpm
rpm -F dummy-1.0-1.rpm
rpm -U --replacefiles dummy-1.0-1.rpm
All the commands replace file A but remove file B.
Any help so that file A gets upgraded and file B
is
retained.
(Because of some size limit I do not want to have
file
B in the upgrade package dummy-1.0-1.rpm)
This is in "normal use" not possible. If you want
separate
upgrading, you should put files A and B in separate
packages
and maybe add some dependencies (dummya requires
dummyb etc.,
possibly with version numbers for version-specific
relations).
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