[WBEL-devel] Testers needed
Lance Davis
lance@uklinux.net
Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:05:47 +0100 (BST)
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Greg Hosler wrote:
>
> On 18-Apr-2004 Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > I downloaded and installed all via:
> >
> > rpm -Uvh *
> >
> > I have tested cvs and openoffice.org.
>
> Did the openoffice.org rpm *really* upgrade ?
>
> I have RHEL3, and when I did the equivelent on RHEL3, the openoffice.org rpms
> do NOT upgrade. The reason is simple. The package name is different from the
> originally installed one. The original openoffice rpm is openoffice.#; the
> errata is named openoffice.org-# -- as near as I can tell, rpm would *never*
> consider openoffice.org as a candidate for openoffice, and as far as I can
> see, that's why the rpm -Fvh that I did, did not update the original
> openoffice's rpms.
rpm -Fvh doesnt
>
> So... I'm curious. did your openoffice.org rpm really update ?
rpm -Uvh does work
similarily with yum - yum update wont pick it up - but 'yum upgrade
openoffice' will.
Lance
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