rpm upgrade/freshen a glob of RPMs

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rpm –U does not install all the RPMs found in the glob if some of the RPMs are already installed.

Or is this expected and my expectations are incorrect?

 

I have 3 example RPMs, where C.rpm depends on A.rpm and B.rpm.

 

   % rpm -U A.rpm B.rpm C.rpm

 

then A.rpm and B.rpm and C.rpm are installed as expected.

 

   % rpm -e C

   % rpm -Uhv A.rpm B.rpm C.rpm

    Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

            package A.i686 is already installed

            package B.i686 is already installed

 

this will say A.rpm and B.rpm are already installed, but

C.rpm is not installed or updated or even mentioned in the 'rpm' output.

Is this expected that the one outdated or not-installed RPM is NOT updated?

I really expected that just the missing or outdated RPMs would get installed

when I globbed a group of RPMs.

 

   % rpm -U C.rpm

 

that works just fine after the other two RPMs are installed.

 

*** What is the recommended way to repeatedly install or update one changed or a new RPM

in a group of dependent RPMs?

 

    % rpm -U *

    % for i in * ; do rpm -U $i ; done

or

   % rpm –U *

   % rpm –F *

 

"rpm –F *" will do what I would expect as long as all of the RPMs at least have

an older version installed. So it seems like "-U" and "-F" are more different

than just considering if a RPM is installed already or not (as the doc suggests).

The two options also seem to treat multiple RPM arguments differently.

 

I am on CentOS-6.7 x86_64

and Centos-7 x86_64

 

% rpm --version

RPM version 4.8.0

RPM version 4.11.1

 

I know I could try to use ‘yum’ but I had other issues with that.

 

--thank you

 

--

Paul Becker

508-573-7839

pbecker@xxxxxxxxxxx

 

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