On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 19:04 +0100, Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
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On Thursday 19 February 2004 19:01, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 18:54 +0100, Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
For amsn users, v 0.90 has been released. I've made rpms for SuSE 8.2 and 9.0. NOTE: The users who installed my old '0.90beta' packages need to update them with --force option, otherwise rpm thinks the new version is older than the installed one, it was my fault :(.
--oldpackage is better. Never use the --force
This is from `man rpm` --force Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage.
Is really any difference?.
Yes, using --force blindly as the first option when installing will hide any potential problems with the package, such as overwriting files from other packages. If you've tried the other options and thoroughly investigated any problems that occur, and feel confident that it won't cause any problems, then --force might be used as a shorthand for those options But if you have to use --force, the real solution is to rebuild the package. If you have to use --force, the package is broken Too many problem reports start with "I don't know what happened, I just installed this package with rpm -Uvh --force and now my system is screwed. linux really sucks etc etc etc" --force needs to be removed from rpm