remove an installed rpm during rpm -i

[Valery Reznic]

Did you try to use Obsolete tag ?

Valery


--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Barry R Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:

> From: Barry R Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net>
> Subject: remove an installed rpm during rpm -i
> To: rpm-list at lists.rpm.org
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 8:13 PM
> Hello List,
> 
> I've looked high and low and all the .spec file
> examples do not show how
> to do this IF it is at all possible. How could I do an
> .spec file entry ,
> possibly
> %pre   --- something
> to parse the rpm database and if a particular rpm is found
> to be installed
> it will be uninstalled during the rpm install process? This
> is so my
> rpmbuild/ rpm -ivh does not conflict with a few already
> exsiting /bin
> files.
> I am rolling a few binaries  into my rpm that would
> conflict with already
> installed .rpm. I'm just trying to make this as
> streamlined as possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry
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