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* Anders Johansson (andjoh@rydsbo.net) [021107 11:11]: ->On Thursday 07 November 2002 16.03, Thibaut Cousin wrote: ->> --force tells RPM to overwrite files and packages and *also* to ignore ->> dependency problems. It is extremely dangerous. -> ->Actually no. --force is a synonym for "--replacefiles --replacepkgs ->--oldpackage". It still takes dependencies into account, that is why you see ->so many people advocating "--nodeps --force". -> ->I agree that it's extremely dangerous though Yes, in some cases you can end up with 2 pkg names in the RPM db. As most of you've noticed this question on the list. RPM kept puking on itself when I had to return to 8.0 from 8.1 because there were 1.2G of updates. It would get about 1/2 way done with the update..so I added the --force to the equation and had to spend the next 2 days removing duplicate names out of the RPM db. Let me say this it was absolutely no fun at all. Be very sure of what your doing with --force or you could just give yourself a giant headache. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.