Depending upon what distro you are using, your package manager may allow you to have both the old and the new version of the package installed at the same time. If the package is a set of libraries with suffixes, then that might be sufficient. With RPM-based distros, you tell RPM to install the new package, rather than upgrade the package (rpm -i ... instead of rpm -U ... or yum upgrade ...). With a DEB-based distro, I don't know how you do that.
Douglas Wooster From: "Harder, Pieter" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 02/03/2009 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Philosophical question... >Upgrading a system to current level. Have a vendor product that insists on >the installation of a backlevel component application that causes the >configuration and service management system to report errors in the >configuration. Vendor insists that the backlevel component is the only way, >but the errors cause problems with future upgrades and overall configuration >management by reporting false positives when checked for whether the system >is up to date and has all service applied. >Question: >I believe the maker of the vendor product is in error here. Am I wrong? I would be inclined to agree with you. But this is not unheard of behavior for vendors. Just to mention a big one: all but the most recent SAP install processes insist you install an 1.4.2 base Java SDK. If you have another requirement for an 1.5.0 based version the result is lots of fun and games. Best regards, Pieter Harder [email protected] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
