Re: [TCLUG:18338] openssh upgrade...

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

>         I'm going to upgrade from ssh 1.2.26 (I believe it's actually
> openssh; but a friend of mine built me the rpms himself), to openssh
> 2.1 (grabbed from openbsd.com).
>         should I do an rpm -e on the existing ssh packages, then
> install openssh; or just rpm -Uvh the new stuff over the existing
> install?

-U pretty much just does the -e then the -i in one command. Though I
think it handles config files differently... .rpmnew .rpmsave .rpmorig 
whee...

> by the look of the package contents, all that'll happen is I will have
> some orphaned /usr/doc files; but I just figured I should ask people
> who know more about this stuff than I do, before shooting myself in
> the foot. :)

Ummm. RPM doesn't leave stuff around like that. ;)