On 09/30/2005 07:23 AM, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
and I always fear to go a step to far and lauch an unwanted install :-)
I seem to remember doing an install where I told it to update an existing system (at the same version). What it did was to replace __all__ the packages that the previous install (at the same version) had already put there.
I wish an install (even if unwanted) would SKIP installing a package if the package already there was the same (or newer) version. [I'm assuming those who WANTED a replace could have done "remove" or "format".]
If the new OS version is compiled with a different version of glibc (and very often this is the case), then replacing installed packages is essential. The version number on the package is not an issue, how software is compiled and linked is critical. It's really not much different from the folks who only want to upgrade glibc on an existing system, and find to their dismay they will have to recompile all their software as a result.