On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 19:35, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > Hi, > > just for the fun of it a tried emerge -sv rpm > and it really did offer me the possiblity to install rpm... > > Now i just wonder if i can really (hypothetically) install rpm and use rpm packages? > And another question: has anyone here tried this? > > p.s. and please don't go on telling me that using rpm would be stupid - I KNOW, > that's why i switched to Gentoo...
I actually installed a binary RPM package (F-Prot antivirus). It installed fine after I passed rpm the --nodeps flag, without which it complained about missing dependencies. My guess is that rpm looks for the database of installed packages, which obviously does not exist, and then produces the dependencies error message. Since the dependencies are anyway installed, running rpm with --nodeps worked. F-prot seems to run without problems, too, so I guess that answers your question. HTH, Krishnan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
