This time Steve Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > I noticed that urpmi now tries to figure out all the unresolved > dependencies on your system just like how apt does. I think this is > extremely annoying behavior and I wish I was disabled by default. > > Justification: > > I have an application, SuperFoo, installed. It has a dependency on IBM's > Java Runtime Environment (JRE). I need to use Sun's JRE because IBM > hasn't bothered to release one that likes gcc 3.2 yet. And I know from > my usage that it works fine with Sun's JRE. SuperFoo is a proprietary > application so I don't have the source for it. Having to repackage it > every release to remove the stupid hard requirement on IBM-JDK is > extremely annoying. > > So I can install SuperFoo with straight rpm -Uvh --nodeps. Life is good > and I can use SuperFoo.
Easy to fix: rpm -e --justdb SuperFoo That'll delete SuperFoo from your rpm database without deleting the actual files. That way your deps will work nicely and you have your package installed. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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