RE: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodger Donaldson [mailto:rodgerd@orwell.weta.dyn.ml.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 3:18 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Subject: Re: i586 Gnome for RedHat 6.1?
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 10:28:03PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > What version of RPM are you using?  I've never seen any 
> need to do this.
> > And 'rpm -Uvh *rpm' from the proper directory with RPM v3 
> gets all of the
> > dependancies correct, and I simply rm the ones that I have installed
> > (because I have them someplace else already).
> 
> You know, 'rpm -Fvh' must be the least known option from rpm 
> 3.0 and up.
> 
> The -F switch performs an upgrade on everything in the 
> specified list of
> rpms that you already have, so you don't have to bother with 
> checking what
> you have first.

Could this be because 3 has only been available a short while, like as of
either 6.1 or 6.0 from redhat?