On 3 Jul 2002, at 11:43am, Cole Tuininga wrote: > We have a couple RH boxes around here, one of which is 7.2. I tried doing > exactly this, and it began to complain about missing some rpm rpms? I > couldn't figure out how to fulfill the dependency?
That's odd. What RPMs was it complaining about? I am wondering if some third-party RPMs are installed which depend on currently installed versions of Red Hat RPMs, and which would therefore break if said dependencies were upgraded. You might also try the --verbose switch. > We do have apt-rpm on that box. It, unfortunately, was not much help > either. An important thing to remember is that a package management system is as only as good as the information in the package database. The good ole GIGO principle applies here. I have seen plenty of packages (from vendors and contributors alike) that had incomplete or outright wrong information in their descriptors. The OpenSSH RPM is a good example: The header specifies that it requires PAM, but does not specify which version of PAM. The result is that RPM tries to build it even if an old version of PAM (which lacks some needed components) is installed. Then the build fails with an obscure message, leaving the user wondering what went wrong. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
