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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Wed Nov 6 16:14:05 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:40:53 GMT."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 16:11:53 -0500
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Tim Baverstock writes:
>My obfuscation: I meant in an .rpmsave. `Preserved' as in `pickled'. :)
:-)
And when joe user has (for instance) installed some beta software
directly from tarballs because RPMS aren't yet available (say, a
new version of XFree86) and then upgrades to the real thing via
rpm, it might suddenly use up an extra 100 MB of disk space not
available on the partition in question in .rpmsave files. I can
imagine the angry, acid commentary we would get in such a case,
and I shudder to think about it...
michaelkjohnson
"Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?"
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