[fedora-india] How to write spec file with upgrade option?

Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 11:10:59 UTC 2011


Hi,

--- On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Syam <syamcr at gmail.com> wrote:
| Except that rpm command is way faster and simpler than the graphical methods
| or yum. For installing stand-alone RPMs (i.e. without needing any automatic
| dependency resolution),
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If you change the state of the system with manual installation, it is
your responsibility. You have been advised not to.

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| I've found the rpm command to be much superior.
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They are not two different things. yum is a wrapper with rpm. But, yum
does checks before installing dependencies, and packages, and hence
you are encouraged to use it.

Regards,

SK

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