On Friday 06 April 2001 03:54 am, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> If you are installing a i586 file over an i386 file (all things being
> otherwise identical, including distro, etc.) should you first uninstall
> the i386 and then install the i586 or is this automatically taken care
> of by the --Uhv option,
'-Uvh' will upgrade prior versions of an rpm, no matter what the
optimization (eg, i386). for example:
I just d/l'd a cooker 'mkbootdisk' src rpm and rebuilt it on 7.2, which
created 'mkbootdisk-1.2.8-3mdk.i686.rpm'. I then 'rpm -Uvh'd this i686
rpm to upgrade 7.2's default i586 'mkbootdisk-1.2.7' rpm.
Works the other direction too, I've used i386 rpms to upgrade i586'rs.
'-Uvh --force' can be used to 'upgrade' the same version rpm, or to
downgrade to a prior version, again optimization makes no difference. No
need to uninstall the existing rpm in any case.
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