Re: PROPOSAL: command line for LSB package program
Erik,
not entirely correct...:
$ rpm -u cthugha
error: -u and --uninstall are deprecated and no longer work.
error: Use -e or --erase instead.
Of course I also find: "Red Hat will make an arbitrarily strong
commitment..." interesting as the R in RPM is supposed to just stand for
RPM now...
Erik Troan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
> > H. Peter Anvin writes:
> >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > Okay, do we know whether or not rpm(8) will ever change? It could
> > cause problems in the latter case.
>
> It's been backwards compatible on the command line since RPM 1.0, written
> in perl.
>
> Red Hat will make an arbitrarily strong commitment to keeping RPM's command
> line as a superset of a given standard (i.e., we'll add things but not remove
> or change them).
>
> Erik
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