test2 initial reactions

[Michael Schwendt]

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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:47:57 -0400, John Alexander Thacker wrote:

> > Was this upgrade done with the installer?
> 
> Yes.
>  
> > What does 'rpm -q comps' say?
> 
> [jat48 at thacker jat48]$ rpm -q comps
> comps-9-0.20030313
> 
> Aha.  Hmm, the same thing happened with rpmdb-redhat, although I did upgrade
> that by hand.  I didn't know about comps.
> 
> 0.94 < 9, so the installer apparently didn't do the upgrade, since the RHL
> 9 package looked newer to rpm. 

And a higher epoch was not set either.

> In fact to upgrade comps right now I have
> to use --force.

Don't. Use --oldpackage instead. It's safer.


- -- 
Michael, who doesn't reply to top posts and complete quotes anymore.

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