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Re: Description of new installer, intent to release as alpha.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Oct 3 10:28:41 2001
Message-Id: <200110031427.KAA09949@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
cc: Linux-Dev <linux-dev@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:17:15 EDT."
<200110031417.KAA11258@no-knife.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 10:27:49 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> ({\tt sync\_rpms.py}) Since rpmupdate installs everything in the
> control list, but leaves any non-conflicting packages behind, it next
> gets a list of all rpm's that are installed on the system but not on
> the control list, and erases them from the system.
Look into the rpmupdate -p flag.
