On Tuesday, August 08 2000, John Summerfield said:
> What about the other new rpm features? Such as just where --force is
> effective now? I have been told it means more than just this:
>
> --force
> Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpackage.
Can I recommend actually looking at the man page before blasting.. from
the rpm manpage on a Red Hat 6.1 + updates box (rpm 3.0.3-2)
--force
Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and
--oldpackage.
Okay, not all of the macros are in the man page, but there are a ton of
macros and I think that /usr/lib/rpm/macros is relatively good
documentation on them. The man page is already frighteningly long to
someone new to rpm and making it longer isn't going to help matters at
all.
Jeremy
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