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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Wed Nov 6 17:22:47 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 1996 15:18:45 CST."
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 17:20:01 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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> > 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...
>
> Obviouysly, it would query the user before copying files. (maybe a
> size threshold.. anything over 500k is querried)
RPM will never query the user. I hasten to say "never", but that is
a design decision that has been made. RPM should never be interactive.
--Donnie
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