Please have a look of RPM installation output when carried out for two diff version one after the another. The Installed version is obtained by "rpm -qa | grep mypkg" to check the version which got installed after any rpm -i/-U comand.
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#1 rpm -Uvh mypkg-2010.05.1.18.noarch.rpm
-PRE-IN:$1=1
-POST-IN:1=1
-Installed Version: mypkg-2010.05.1.18.noarch
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#2 rpm -Uvh mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch.rpm
- PRE-IN:$1=2
- POST-IN:$1=2
- PRE-UN:$1=1
- POST-UN:$1=1
- Installed Version: mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch
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#3 rpm -Uvh mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch.rpm --force
- PRE-IN:$1=2
- POST-IN:$1=2
- Installed Version: mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch
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#4 rpm -ivh mypkg-2010.05.1.18.noarch.rpm --force
- PRE-IN:$1=2
- POST-IN:$1=2
- Installed Version: mypkg-2010.05.1.18.noarch, mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch
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#5 rpm -ivh mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch.rpm --force
- PRE-IN:$1=3
- POST-IN:$1=3
- Installed Version: mypkg-2010.05.1.18.noarch, mypkg-2010.05.2.2.noarch
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In observation #4, why both versions are in RPM database. Any other way by which we can remove the higher version package when we are trying to install/update the lower version package
In observation #5, a new player comes in $1=3. Is it new feature or some strange.
Also, how to remove the newer package & its installed stuff, when I am trying to install/update a LOWER version package forcefully. Is it possible or some tweaking required?
regards,
ap
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