upgrading to same package version

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On Jan 27, 2004 at 13:46, Matt H. in a soothing rage wrote:

>Hi guys
>
>I'm trying to upgrade freetype to enable support for the bytecode
>interpreter by changing the SPEC and rebuilding the source rpm. FedoraNews
>suggests to use the "--replacefiles" option with the rebuild command since
>it's upgrading to the same version number. This just gives me "package
>freetype-2.1.4-5 is already installed".
>
>What would be the better option (for RPM DB integrity etc.): Use
>"--replacefiles" & "--replacepkgs" or use "--force"?
Then try --replacepkgs. Since you have no conflicts or
dependency problems, I guess you can use --force as a 
last resort

>Both of these options produce no dependency/conflict errors when tested
>with "--test".

N.Emile...
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