On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> In a message dated: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:03:20 EST
> Benjamin Scott said:
>
> > If they were not installed via RPM, RPM will generally not know about them.
>
> Is there ever a case where RPM will know about something *not*
> installed via RPM? Is there some way to update the database with
> package info about something installed from source that I'm not aware
> of? That would be really cool, IMO!
man rpm
--justdb
Update only the database, not the filesystem.
> > No. Don't use the "--force" switch.
> >
> > I see lots of people saying they "--force" things all the time. These are
> >usually the same people that complain that package managers don't work.
> >They don't realize they are creating their own problems.
>
> While I agree with you in general, if you know all the dependancies for this
> package are installed (probably from source) in the same place rpm would've
> installed them (okay, this is *highly* unlikely :) then you should be okay.
>
> But I think Ben's right, if you have to --force something, then that
> usually means that you should re-think what you're about to do and
> consider some other alternative.
--rdp
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Rich Payne
www.linuxalpha.org
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