On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 06:29:41PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > Yes.. For a single package. But if you do 'rpm -F *.rpm' in RedHat/RPMS/,
> > split up, new _required_ packages etc. should be upgraded just fine.
>
> In short, "rpm -F", for me, only picked up new packages by name, nothing
> else. I was the under the impression that this is general behaviour,
> however, after this discussion, I sense that I might be missing something.
> Please tell me: Did the above mentioned samba update work for you without
> manual work?
Oh sorry, you're correct. I had this wrong impression that RPM's -F mode
would be a tad more flexible and I thought I had tested it in the past.
I consider this a design flaw of RPM. I'll file this in Bugzilla as
Request for Enhancement. Perhaps we'll see this one day :)
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