[Techtalk] rpm --allfiles

AzuRose Design azurosedesigns at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 25 11:21:27 EST 2002


Hrm. Just a guess, but I'd say maybe dependencies that were skipped over in
a previous installation?

--Poppy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hamster" <hamster at hamsternet.org>
To: "techtalk" <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: [Techtalk] rpm --allfiles


> Hi,
>
> While reading through the rpm man page, I came across the following entry
under the "Install and Upgrade" section.
>
> --allfiles
> Installs or upgrades all the missingok files in the package.
>
> My question is what is a "missingok" file?
>
> Is it a typo in the man page, or an entity in its own right?
>
> rpm 4.0.3 on Mandrake
>
> Thanks!
>
> Hamster
>
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