Precise behavior of --justdb

[QuantumTux]

RPM v4.16.1 (in RHEL v9)

I have some RPMs that use Triggers and deploy some files

For various reasons, I want to "update" the RPMs - that is, I want to "remove" the "old" ones and "install" the "new" ones. In a few cases, the RPMs are changing names (even though the "old" RPM does exactly the same thing as the "new" RPM).

There's no real change to the files deployed - this is actually about fixing some typos/documentation/description mistakes, plus an occasional dependency fix-up. However, in a number of cases, removing (that is, just plain rpm --erase or rpm --upgrade) the "old" RPM would cause a service interruption to some software on the hosts. So I just want to swap out the RPMs in the DB.

Of critical importance is that none of the files deployed by an RPM should be changed, nor should any %pre, %post, %preun, %postun or %trigger script get executed.

The wording of the man page says

--justdb
Update only the database, not the filesystem.

While it might be reasonable to ass/u/me that it implies --noscripts and --notriggers, I prefer to make certain.

So, that is my question: what is the precise behavior of --just-db in this context?

[pmatilai]

--justdb indeed disables all scriptlets, as you would assume.