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[e.maryniak@xxxxxxxxx (Eric Maryniak)]

Helo geeko's ;)

The "freshen" option does not seem to work or am I doing something
very wrong?

# rpm --version
RPM version 3.0.3

# man rpm
...
        Maintaining installed packages:
            ...
            rpm [--freshen|-F] [installoptions] [package_file]+
# rpm -Fvh scanlogd-1.3-61.i386.rpm
rpm: --hash (-h) may only be specified during package installation

# rpm -F scanlogd-1.3-61.i386.rpm
RPM version 3.0.3
Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software
This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License

usage: rpm {--help}
.... listing of all options (NOT mentioning -F !!) ....


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What is the most recent RPM version and does it support the -F flag?
Imho this is a very handy flag, eg., for a poor-mans update:

       # cd /path/to/where-i-downloaded-specific-updated-suse63-rpms
       # for f in `find . -name '*.rpm' -print | grep -v '/zq1/'`; do
             rpm -Fvh $f
             echo -n "  Done, press enter to continue: "; read a
         done

because rpm -Fvh works like rpm -Uvh, but only installs a newer package
if a previous version was installed (and thus not corrupting your carefully
crafted list of installed packages when installing SuSE initially :-)

Thanx for any help or suggestions,

Eric Maryniak
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