On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 16:54:50 -0500, Jason Costomiris wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 11:25:13AM -0500, Mike Wangsmo wrote:
>: This is something that we can't fix. The portmap package in original 5.0
>: had brokenness in the %post section that didn't allow for upgrades. People
>: will have to just manually run ntsysv/chkconfig after installing the new
>: portmap package. Erik is hacking rpm to handle the couple of packages that
>: are messed up like this for 5.1.
>
>Forgive my (apparent) glaring insolence, but what would prohibit someone
>from doing:
>
>rpm -e portmap
>rpm -i newer-portmap.rpm
Nothing, another easy answer (that I didn't think of) is to do:
rpm -Uvh --noscripts portmap....rpm
That will just ignore the section of %post that is causing problems and
perform the upgrade.
Mike
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