Re: [WBEL-devel] Testers needed

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 03:05, Lance Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Greg Hosler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 18-Apr-2004 Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> > > I downloaded and installed all via:
> > > 
> > > rpm -Uvh *
> > > 
> > > I have tested cvs and openoffice.org.
> > 
> > Did the openoffice.org rpm *really* upgrade ?
> > 
> > I have RHEL3, and when I did the equivelent on RHEL3, the openoffice.org rpms
> > do NOT upgrade. The reason is simple. The package name is different from the
> > originally installed one. The original openoffice rpm is openoffice.#; the
> > errata is named openoffice.org-# -- as near as I can tell, rpm would *never*
> > consider openoffice.org as a candidate for openoffice, and as far as I can
> > see, that's why the rpm -Fvh that I did, did not update the original
> > openoffice's rpms.
> 
> rpm -Fvh doesnt
> 
> > 
> > So... I'm curious. did your openoffice.org rpm really update ?
> 
> rpm -Uvh does work
> 
I have indeed verified that I only have openoffice.org and not
openoffice rpms ... and that:

rpm -Uvh 

does do the upgrade correctly

all my shortcuts still work as well ...

> similarily with yum - yum update wont pick it up - but 'yum upgrade 
> openoffice' will.
> 
> Lance

- Johnny Hughes