Someone Explain: Whats going on X.org/XFree

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Barry K. Nathan wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:41:14PM -0600, Richard Ayer III wrote:
>  
>
>>I think that you need to do rpm -ivh xorg-x11-* because you want to
>>install, not upgrade, the xorg packages.
>>    
>>
>No, it's rpm -Uvh. You want to Upgrade from XFree86 to xorg-x11-* (which
>obsoletes XFree86-*).
>

afaik

you can not use  -i  if an older package is installed
in this case, xorg-x11 is not installed,    -i  should be ok

you can use  -U  for updating installed packages or installing a new package
-U xorg-x11 is in this case  -i

-F  freshen is the choice if you will only freshen *installed* packages
eg.
rpm -Fvh /path/to/development/*


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