On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:41, you wrote:
> on one of the snf mail lists there was a thread where i got told off!:-)
> for not reading advisories on how to update snf with regards to httpd-naat
> and apache, i forget which list but if iirc the procedure is to download
> the update rpms manually and to update apache first manually and then
> httpd-naat, naat-frontend-www-en manually, also iirc you have to uninstall
> httpd-naat first with --nodeps because of problems with some script or
> other, i had to reinstall recently after a failed upgrade to the new snf on
> cooker adn what i did was, install fresh, run the update from the web
> interface, note down all the rpms listed for upgrade and then fetch them
> manually, then, uninstalled httpd-naat and naat-frontend-www-en both
> --nodeps, then i uninstalled apache, php, mod_php, mod_auth_external (all
> these rpm names from memory) and some others - they were all listed as
> dependencies of the newer version of apache - using --nodeps, then i
> installed the newer apache and its dependencies, followed by httpd-naat,
> naat-backend and naat-frontend-www-en nad then any others,
> durng this process i noticed that i got a message saying that perl was not
> in the rpm database (or similar), it might be a good idea to make updating
> perl the first job before anythin else so that the rpm database has it
> listed anyway snf is now updated, i have all the users i should have,
> running update lists all the mirrors (doesn't find any updates presumably
> because there aren' any), and https://snfhost:8443 lets me in fine, whether
> this is the recommended way to do things i can't say but it seems to have
> worked for me the list that this got discussed in was either:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> what archives exist i'm not sure
>
> bascule
Thank you for the reply Bascule.
The above appears to be an extremely intuiative method of doing things.
I should have tried uninstalling more than just a few packages first, then
updating to the newer packages.
I will try your suggested method later today.
Thanks again,
--
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