On 2009-10-26 Matt Taggart wrote: >> Summarizing the issue you had, and CC'ing the FOSSology mailing list so >> we capture this knowledge for future generations: You found that we >> were missing two RPMs from the list of FO dependencies: libtool-ltdl >> and perl-DateManip. > > Well they are dependencies of our dependencies. If you were using a > package manager that automatically recursively resolved dependencies > (like apt or > yum) they would have just been pulled in. But since you were using rpm > directly, they needed to be installed by hand. > > I would be surprised if these were the only deps-of-deps that were > needed, but maybe you already had some installed. Documenting all of > them is an ongoing chore and might even change over time, so it's > frustrating that it needs to be in our docs (but that par for the RHEL > course).
You'll hear no arguments from me on that one. Yum should automatically resolve these on RHEL5/CentOS5 and beyond, so the kind of troubles George is having will gradually go away. Dan P.S. According to http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ RHEL4 will be completely end-of-life on February 29, 2012. Perhaps we should have a party? _______________________________________________ fossology mailing list [email protected] http://fossology.org/mailman/listinfo/fossology
