A great big Thank You to you and Willem! "Post, Mark K" wrote:
> Ann, > > For a distribution that is maintained by RPM, such as Red Hat and SuSE, you > _should_ maintain everything with RPM, unless you're installing a package > that is not provided by the distributor. Even then you might want to > consider creating your own spec files and use RPM to build and install it. > > There are a couple of ways to make this process easier. One is the up2date > facility that Adam was reporting a problem on earlier today. Alan Cox also > talked about a port of apt-get to handle RPM files. Take a look at > http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ann Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RPM's and TAR's (was PREREQ's) > > We're still trying to install the prereq's for the JDK 1.3.0. We have > gotten past our initial 'cannot install' package problem. It ended up > the Hummingbird(Exceed) was warping the binary ftp transfer of the rpm > file. > But we still have an issue with determining everything needed for glibc. > > rpm -qR glibc-2.1.2-4.s390.rpm gives the response: > /sbin/ldconfig not too helpful > When we attempt to install glibc we get messages regarding many > conflicts. > The developer site just says we need glibc 2.1 or newer. > So we went looking for an rpm file. I am not sure we really can always > avoid tarz files but rpm's seemed to be available for glibc. > I guess my question is - (1) Is it normal to attempt installs and deal > with the conflicts as they are indicated or being a newbie am I missing > some rpm query options that would help me out?(2) Do the SUSE > maintenance CD's (if you have maintenance contract) always have rpm > files or are tarz files normal maintenance practice (just part of life, > learn to deal with it)?
