Erik, not entirely correct...:
$ rpm -u cthugha error: -u and --uninstall are deprecated and no longer work. error: Use -e or --erase instead. Of course I also find: "Red Hat will make an arbitrarily strong commitment..." interesting as the R in RPM is supposed to just stand for RPM now... Erik Troan wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > > > > Yes. > > > > Okay, do we know whether or not rpm(8) will ever change? It could > > cause problems in the latter case. > > It's been backwards compatible on the command line since RPM 1.0, written > in perl. > > Red Hat will make an arbitrarily strong commitment to keeping RPM's command > line as a superset of a given standard (i.e., we'll add things but not remove > or change them). > > Erik -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - short SIGs! <g> All I need to know I could have learned in Kindergarten ... if I'd just been paying attention.
