Bug 10398

Summary: root and freshen options don't work together
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: advax
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description advax 2000-03-28 19:27:25 UTC 
The -F freshen option works OK if the --root option is not
given, but with --root does not seem to find the packages.

RPM version 3.0.3 i386

# rpm --root /hdb1 -q pam-0.68-7
pam-0.68-7
# ls -l ../../../updates/pam-0.68-10.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 278      278        627243 Jan  4 14:25
../../../updates/pam-0.68-10.i386.rpm

# rpm --root /hdb1 -Fv ../../../updates/pam-0.68-10.i386.rpm
rpm: no packages given for install

# rpm --root /hdb1 -Uh ../../../updates/glib-devel-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm
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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-03-28 20:14:59 UTC 
That's because it's checking packages against the non --root
filesystem.

You can't yet mix -F and --root.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-06-23 14:56:23 UTC 
This should be fixed in rpm-3.0.5 and rpm-4.0, available from
	ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test
at the moment.