Re: another sed regex question

[charles@lunarmedia.net]

i didnt know how -Fvh would handle an rpm of a higher version that was
already installed. case in point being bind. updates.redhat.com has
bind-8.2.3 as their latest update, however i am already running
bind-9.1.0.
what kind of burp would this cause with a -F?



On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> charles@lunarmedia.net said:
> > i have a list of rpms that came back from a diff of the most recent
> > updates compared to the rpms that i currently have installed.
>
> OK, just out of curiosity, is there any good reason not to just use -F
> to upgrade?  You can just go into a directory and do "rpm -Fvh *.rpm",
> and rpm will only upgrade the packages that you already have
> installed.
>
> Trying to parse the rpm versions from the filenames is a royal pain,
> and getting the comparison of version numbers right is even worse.  If
> you can use -F, go that route.
>
> Steve
>

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