Bug 4650

Summary:	--freshen installs new packages
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ragnar Kjørstad <bugzilla>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	bjn, bugzilla, pekkas
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Description Ragnar Kjørstad 1999-08-22 15:49:49 UTC

The "-F" / "--freshen" option seems to install the packages
even if they're not alreaddy installed when an ftp-url is
specified instead of a local file.

On an i386 RedHat 6.0 system:

[root@stine 6.0]# rpm -q squid
package squid is not installed

[root@stine 6.0]# rpm -F i386/squid-2.2.STABLE4-5.i386.rpm
rpm: no packages given for install

[root@stine 6.0]# rpm -q squid
package squid is not installed

[root@stine 6.0]# rpm -F
ftp://ftp.vestdata.no/pub/linux/mirrors/redhat-updates/6.0/i386/squid-2.2.STABLE4-5.i386.rpm

[root@stine 6.0]# rpm -q squid
squid-2.2.STABLE4-5

Comment 1 bjn 1999-11-15 14:03:59 UTC

Also happens with RedHat 6.1, when using an ftp URL:

# rpm -qa | grep ypserv
# rpm -Fvh ftp://kepler/pub/redhat-updates/6.1/i386/ypserv-1.3.9-1.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://kepler/pub/redhat-updates/6.1/i386/ypserv-1.3.9-1.i386.rpm
ypserv                      ##################################################
#

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-02-21 19:30:37 UTC

Now that --freshen is implemented in C rather than in a shell script, I don't
believe
that this is still a problem. Please reopen if I'm wrong.