yum update in rawhide after a long break [was Re: rawhide report: 20080114 changes]

[Jim Cornette]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> rpm -V glibc-2.7-2
> shows lots of files with problems
> rpm -V glibc-2.7.90
> shows a few files with problems in size and md5sum, and 
> /lib/libc-2.7.90.so is one of them.

Usually I see the later version coming back with no output. The earlier 
version usually is highly missing files or for files that changed 
timestamp or size.

Downloading the later rpm and using --replacepkgs and --replacefiles 
with rpm sounds like it will overwrite all previous discrepancies and 
put everything as it should be. It should also clean out the rubble from 
the earlier package from the rpm database. As earlier mentioned 
--replacefiles is debatable depending on your goal to preserve 
customized changes.

Jim