Bug 134171

Summary:	freshen ignores architecture
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Thomas Zehetbauer 2004-09-29 22:13:58 UTC

According to the man page rpm --freshen should upgrade only packages
for which an earlier version currently exists.

> rpm -q hal
hal-0.2.98.cvs20040923-1.x86_64
> rpm --freshen hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1.x86_64.rpm
hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        libcap.so.1 is needed by hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1
        libdbus-1.so.0 is needed by hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1
        libdbus-glib-1.so.0 is needed by hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1
> rpm --freshen hal-0.2.98.cvs20040927-1.x86_64.rpm

> rpm -q firefox
firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.1.i386
> rpm --freshen firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.3.i386.rpm
firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.3.x86_64.rpm
> rpm -q firefox
firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.3.i386
firefox-0.10.0-1.0PR1.3.x86_64

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-09-29 23:12:42 UTC

Yup. Freshen looks only at newer packages, that's the way
it is defined, that's the way it is gomg to stay in the
interest of "satbility".

Write a wrapper script, choose the packages you want
by whatever means you want, then invoke rpm with
the given package list.

The rationale for a wrapper is that rpm supplies
mechanism, not policy. Use yum/up2date or equivalent
if you want to define an install/upgrade/erase policy.