Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 47158
--replacepkgs not always working
Last modified: 2007-03-26 23:46:41 EDT
Description of Problem: --replacpkgs doesn't work without --replacefiles when updating rebuild packages with same version and release but different file times How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install package xyz 2. rebuild the binary rpm 3. rpm -U --replacepkgs newbinary.rpm says "file /some/file from install of xyz conflicts with file from package xyz" for every file -> it only works with --replacefiles also given but this could overwrite files from other packages
This is the traditional, orthogonal, behavior of the --replackepkgs and --replacefiles options. Attempting to find interrelationships between all the options, so that, say, --replacepkgs can always assume --replacefiles is risky, because it changes the expected behavior of rpm. I don't believe there's sufficient gain to justify changing the existing behavior. You can, if you wish, create your own rpm options using popt aliases. For example, you can do echo "rpm alias --replaceboth --replacepkgs --replacefiles" >> /etc/popt and then invoke rpm with rpm -U --replaceboth <package>
-U --replacepkgs _should_always_ work without --replacefiles, because what -U does, is not more than -e and -i one after the ofter (at least it looks like this) the problem is that rpm isn't consequent, if the package which is to be updated differs from the installed one (in version/release) everything is ok but if they differ only in the files it is not working from the man page --replacefiles Install the packages even if they replace files from other, already installed, packages. ^^^^^ --replacepkgs Install the packages even if some of them are already installed on this system. ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ the description is correct, but rpm shows a different behaviour