rpm stupid

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:24:50AM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> hi
> 
> why is the rpm giving out so many errors,
> instead of just dying on first permission problem?
> 
> and also the garbage it outputs corrupts my terminal
> 
> this happens if i run rpm (accidentally) by non-root

It looks like rpm 4.4.1 is better in this case too:

$ LC_ALL=C rpm -Uhv *-2.3.5-0.1*
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000


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