[ILUG] weird rpm behavior

[Dave Burke]

Just doing some rpm updates on my desktop and noticed the following weird
behavior......

[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -qa |grep ircii
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -Fvh ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm 
no packages require freshening
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -Fvh ftp://internal/incoming/updates/ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://internal/incoming/updates/ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
ircii ##################################################
[root at batmobile /root]# rpm -qa |grep ircii
ircii-4.4M-1


Now, as you can see, ircii was not installed, and even though I supplied
the -F switch, it still went and installed it when doing an FTP
install. And according to the rpm man page....

"rpm [-F|--freshen] [install-options] <package_file>+
       This will upgrade packages, but only if an earlier version
currently exists. The <package_file> may be specified as an ftp or http
URL"

I'm using rpm version 3.0.4-0.48, which as far as i can see is the latest
versoin, is this known bug? I suppose it's not a major thing, just more
annoying than anything else, just means I've installed some things that
were not originally on my system :-/

Dave