Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[Richard Bos <radoeka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op zondag 18 januari 2004 14:22, schreef BandiPat:
> rpm -Uhv *.rpm --replacefiles
>
> DO NOT USE "--force" as one user suggested, it has potential dangers and
> could conceivably mess up your system if something is not quite right.  
> There are times that --force is useful and needed, but this is not one
> of those.  :o)

Hi Lee;

an excerpt from 'man rpm'

       --force
              Same as using  --replacepkgs,  --replacefiles,  and
              --oldpackage.

with other words --replacefiles is as bad as --force ;)

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Richard Bos
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