Re: [hylafax-users] EOP Errors

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:22:07PM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> > That would be -Uvh, no?
> 
> -Fvh : Freshen, Verbose, Histogram
> -Uvh : Upgrade, Verbose, Histogram
> 
> Freshen does an Upgrade if and only if an older version of the package is 
> currently installed.  In this case, where the user has HylaFAX installed 
> already, it functions just as Uvh would.

Oh, yeah.  I've never done one, actually...

> Freshen, comes in quite handy when you do a fresh install of the Linux
> distro, you ftp over all of the updates, and then you do an 'rpm -Fvh'
> - and only the neccesary packages get Upgraded. If in this case, Uvh
> were performed, you'd get the equivalent of 'ivh' if the package isn't
> installed already. Which, in my book isn't good - especially when you
> don't want a package like anon-ftp installed... or whatever.

... but I can see how it'd be handy.  My bad.

Cheers
-- jra
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