On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 12:57, Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
> This isn't always guaranteed to work.  If package A splits into A and B,
> and A now has a dependency on B that it didn't before, rpm -F will not
> catch it.  up2date will.
> 
> Before you say this is very theoretical, let me point out that I've seen
> this happen *many* times with Mandrake's betas as applications were
> split between the app and its related libraries.  Can't say I've seen it
> happen often with Red Hat.

Not often, but it does.  They split glibc into glibc and glibc-common in
the middle of one release.




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