Strangeness with recent FC5 update
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Jul 11 15:50:05 UTC 2006
Jim Cornette (fct-cornette at insight.rr.com) said:
> Does yum update work differently than rpm -Uvh does?
Generally, no. (In this specific case, it appears to be.)
> If you use the update option to rpm and it is not installed, does it use
> the install script vs. the update script?
There's no such thing as an 'install' or 'update' scripts; there is
just %post, %postun, etc.
> What happens if a package is removed by yum, then updated via the update
> script? Do some routines get skipped, like adding the files which were
> saved by the package removal previously, which do not exist, but were
> saved as the remove routine?
If it's in the transaction as 'remove', then 'update', something odd
will happen.
Bill
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