On Friday 27 July 2001 15:38, you wrote :
> I get the lists now and the download seems to work but the install-fase
> seems much too fast and when I fetch new packages again I still seems to
> have the same versions of the packages that I updated.
>
OK there's another problem with the updates (this had been reported before):
a few packages have a dependency on /usr/bin/perl but there seems to be a
problem with rpm which says that /usr/bin/perl is not owned by any package
(even though it is provided by perl-base).
So there's no way to install the packages without a "--nodeps" option, which
is not an acceptable solution. Btw since we perform a test before actually
installing anything, the script won't ever try to install the packages.
You can still download the packages with the web interface, and then in a
console go to /var/cache and install the downloaded packages with :
rpm --test -Uvh /var/cache/*.rpm
rpm -Uvh /var/cache/*.rpm --nodeps
The first line will check what are the dependencies. Be sure
that you have all the necessary packages. Then install all these packages
with the second line.
We'll try to find a simple way to correct the problem as soon as possible.
Renaud
