Bug 6924

Summary:	rpm -Fvh sometimes fails
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Riley H Williams <rhw>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Riley H Williams 1999-11-11 13:36:17 UTC

I tried to use `rpm -Fvh *.rpm` to update a RH 6.0 install
to RH 6.1 and found that it didn't succeed.

The problem appears to be connected with RPM's where the new
version is dependant on RPM's the old version wasn't
dependant on that weren't installed (and sometimes didn't
even exist in the old version).

Personally, I would suggest that if this situation occurs,
AND all of the RPM's it is dependant on that aren't
installed are included in the parameter list, then rpm
should just include those RPM's in the list of RPM's to be
installed by -Fvh as if they had previously been installed.

Alternatively, is there a different option that has this
behaviour? I can't find any.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-01-09 15:25:12 UTC

The original implementation of --freshen, implemented as a shell script with
several queries,
could fail if, for example, there were network latency problems or errors.

--freshen is now implemented in C (since rpm-3.0.5) and so has little to do with
this problem.