rpm questions
Tom Mitchell
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 21 06:13:06 UTC 2004
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:10:53PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:10:53 -0400
> From: Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: rpm questions
> Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:03:10AM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > rpm --install packagename.rpm
> > > rpm --verify packagename.
> >
> > Duplicate installs with the same version and release will need
> > option --allmatches, no?
>
> Good point yes
What would be different if one booted from CDROM#1 in rescue mode.
(Assuming that the RPMs were still local to be installed.)
Would one chroot and rpm -e ---> rpm -U/F each package
in question?
Would "rpm --root " be useful to recover from a broken 'rpm'
situation?
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