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> On Tuesday, August 08 2000, John Summerfield said:
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> > 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:
> >=20
> > --force
> > Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --oldpacka=
> ge.
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> 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.
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I quoted from the man page. Hover, --force DOES do other things in other
contexts. For example, it's an option to --rmsource.
[summer@emu summer]$ rpm --rmsource --fred
--fred: unknown option
[summer@emu summer]$ rpm --rmsource --force
rpm: no spec files given for build
[summer@emu summer]$
See? It objects to "--fred," but not to "--force." --force is valid in the
--rmsource context, but the documentation says it's not.
Do you want to know ALL the options to rpm? I do; this one would have saved me
a few minutes several times. Someone put it in; I presume there's a design
committee of some kind, so several people would have been involved and thought
it important.
Then they forgot to tell us, the users.
What else is there?
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