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Re: RPM emacs-ath-19.30-5 is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Mar 24 10:06:42 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:06:26 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Eric Mumpower's message of Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:21:21 -0500,
<199703240521.AAA19275@cutter-john.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:21:21 -0500
Cc: warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
> If you don't and people have already upgraded to it, they'll
> be unable to upgrade to the fixed version until the following
> version comes out.
It wouldn't be impossible, it'd just take some extra invocations of rpm. You
can run "rpm -e emacs-ath-19.30" to uninstall it and then install the fixed
version. (This is what I did on cj, after all.)
You can of course use rpm --install --force as well. But if the rpm has
escaped to any "real users", it's better to just bump the version
number.
- Ted
