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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-xen-4.5] tools/mkrpm: improve
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Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:16:48 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 04, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 15:47 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:

> Isn't that -ivh?

-i installs multiple packages, if they have no overlapping files. -U
replaces every installed version with the new one.

> >  -F installs whats already there.
> Does rpm --force -Fvh not work?

-F behaves different. I think it would not take --force into account. At
least --oldpackage does not work with -F.


Olaf