Just doing some rpm updates on my desktop and noticed the following weird
behavior......
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -qa |grep ircii
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -Fvh ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
no packages require freshening
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -Fvh ftp://internal/incoming/updates/ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://internal/incoming/updates/ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
ircii ##################################################
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -qa |grep ircii
ircii-4.4M-1
Now, as you can see, ircii was not installed, and even though I supplied
the -F switch, it still went and installed it when doing an FTP
install. And according to the rpm man page....
"rpm [-F|--freshen] [install-options] <package_file>+
This will upgrade packages, but only if an earlier version
currently exists. The <package_file> may be specified as an ftp or http
URL"
I'm using rpm version 3.0.4-0.48, which as far as i can see is the latest
versoin, is this known bug? I suppose it's not a major thing, just more
annoying than anything else, just means I've installed some things that
were not originally on my system :-/
Dave
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