Re: Upgrading from RPM to SOURCE

[gandalf pobox com]

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Hall wrote:

> I personally think mixing RPMs and source packages is bad... It can be done
> though.

Is there a tool that allows you to tell the RPM database that you have
installed something?  I would rather just lie to the database, and when I
install a source tar, tell it I had installed the equivalent RPM, rather
than using --nodeps all the time.  Then again knowing the correct RPM name
for a given tar might not be easy (though if it has a spec file it is)

-chris

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