Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 108083
RFE: repackage documentation needed
Last modified: 2008-04-01 06:46:25 EDT
Description of problem: OK, so rpm has the --repackage option for erase or install. However, there is documentation lacking concerning (re) installation of repackaged packages. Case in point: today's up2date (4.1.11-3) is "bad" (hangs running). Since I had another box which I had not updated yet, I turned repackage on and then ran up2date for up2date only. I got the repackaged up2date and up2date-gnome (4.1.10-1) in /var/spool/rollbacks as expected but when I copied them to the other system and attempted to install them they would not. The only "documentation" I could find was in a "limited visibility" bugzilla report:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86115 While I admit that there should be extra protections on using these rollbacks, documentation on re-installing them is needed or why bother having the option at all.
*** Bug 174630 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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The situation has not changed. Either correct documentation should be provided or delete this capability.
User pnasrat@redhat.com's account has been closed
Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Both the install section and the erase section in rpm's man page describe the --repackage option as: --repackage Re-package the files before erasing. The previously installed package will be named according to the macro %_repackage_name_fmt and will be created in the directory named by the macro %_repack-age_dir (default value is /var/spool/repackage). Does this resolve this bug? this is on Fedora 8. rpm-4.4.2.2-7.fc8
The repackage + rollback feature has been removed from next upstream version, so you can consider the feature "fixed" ;)