On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jason A. Smith wrote:
> That seems unnecessary. rpm lets you install multiple versions of the
> same package as long as you install with the -i option instead of -U.
> This is how updated kernels are installed since you normally don't want
> to remove your current working kernel till you have verified the new
> one. You only have to make sure you package the files to install into
> different paths to prevent file conflicts.
Correct rpm allows you to do this, updaterpms does not.
Steve
>
> ~Jason
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 12:53, Emanuele LEONARDI wrote:
> > Alice wants to be able to install several versions of their software at
> > the same time. The real sw version number was then included in the rpm
> > name (which is now alice-root-3.05.02 and not just alice-root) and two
> > new rpm version numbers have been introduced. I think the new numbers
> > are actually used for different build of the same version but I do not
> > know the exact logic.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Emanuele
> >
> > Peer Hasselmeyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is it supposed to be like this:
> > >
> > > [root@c20-001-106 root]# rpm -q root
> > > root-3.02.04-1
> > > [root@c20-001-106 root]# rpm -q alice-root
> > > package alice-root is not installed
> > > [root@c20-001-106 root]# rpm -q alice-root-3.05.02
> > > alice-root-3.05.02-1-2
> > >
> > > Why do I need to specify the version number for alice-root,
> > > but not for root?
> > >
> > >
> > > Peer
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