RE: Upgrading RPM (Re: october upgrade rpm weirdness?)

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: famrom@idecnet.com [mailto:famrom@idecnet.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 7:44 AM
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Upgrading RPM (Re: october upgrade rpm weirdness?)
> 
> 
> >rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> 
> Advice for those that download RPM dirs but only want to install a few
> files: check the rpm man page or rpm --help and check for the freshen
> option. IIRC it is -F param.
> 
> It is even better than upgrade, it gets the list of files, 
> and upgrades
> those already installed, leaving out those rpm files that you 
> have never
> installed. Upgrade option -U is upgrade or install, freshen 
> -F is upgrade only.

I don't remember the man page exactly right now, but I was under the
impression that freshen was designed to let you re-install files from RPMs
that you had previousally installed, in case they had become corrupt or
something.
	Greg