Never, never, use --force for this purpose. Dependency warnings are your friend. Kindly re-install your OS or pay the price of having an improperly configured machine!!
It can sometimes be a little tricky, but it's worth the effort to learn how to use rpm properly. A couple of hints: try updating a few packagages at a time. If the package complains about a dependency, figure out what package the module is in and install this first. (You may have to learn I little bit about how to query rpm database(s)). Often you should use -F freshen instead of -U. Sometimes it can be challenging, for example if two packages depend on each other what do you do? Ans: put both package names as augments to the same command: rpm -Uvh package-A-that-depends-on-B.rpm package-B-that-depends-on-A.rpm There are a lot of little tricks like this, but I have only learned enough of them to get by. One of these days I'm going to buy that RPM book i've seen at Borders. Cheers! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Pifer Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrading RPM's I ran a Nessus report on one of my servers running Redhat 7.0 and I'm trying to upgrade a few things based on that report. One of those things is upgrading OpenSSH from 2.5.x to 3.x. I'm fighting dependencies and it's killing me. I can't seem to upgrade any RPM's with the -U option. I have never seen this work. Should it work? So I've been using -i --force. Most of the time this works. I've updated OpenSSL because OpenSSH required it. Now I'm trying to upgrade glibc. When I try to do glibc-2.2.4-13 it says it fails dependencies for glibc-devel. If I try to upgrade glibc-devel to 2.2.4-13 it say it needs glibc-2.2.4-13. Isn't this a catch 22? How the heck should I be doing these upgrades? Also, Nessus reports that my sendmail server will allow relays, but I don't think it does. How can I tell for sure? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
