[5482] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Install and update 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Borgia)
Thu Nov 21 18:16:13 1996
From: Andrea Borgia <bab0069@iperbole.bologna.it>
To: Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au>
Cc: "RedHat Mailing List" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:11:53 GMT
In-Reply-To: <199611170213.NAA00813@forest.nuthouse.au>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:13:33 +1100, you wrote:
> What you need is an option on rpm that will update only if the
> package is already installed. Or one of those awk-ward scripts
> that I have never been able to write.
On my system, I tried more than once to run rpm -U on a package that
was not installed and rpm displayed an error message telling me that
and quit. On the other hand, if the package *is* installed, then rpm
woukd go ahead and update it correctly.
Bye bye.
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