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Bill Crawford wrote:
>> Ask me again why I hate rpm ...
>
> Well, it's that, or you have a broken system when you get the
>dependencies wrong :o)
>
> Seriously, it's the only sensible approach.
Hmm ... that's a pretty sweeping assertion ... ;-)
>I *would* like to see some more tools for package handling, but there's
>no serious obstacle to using the command line.
>
> Each time there's a dependency missing, *add* it to the command line
>instead of trying to install it separately.
Yup, that's what I do; I maintain a script which handles the installs
explicitly in the order required. So far for 7.2, there are at least
two cases of packages which rpm -F can't sort out without help: the Omni
packages, and the Perl updates.
>For example, the problem with the rpm upgrade was solved by including
>all the rpm packages and the popt and python-popt packages together in
>one "rpm -Uvh" command.
That would be nice.
hobson:i386 569 # rpm -Uvh rpm-* popt-1.6.4-7x.i386.rpm python-popt-0.*
error: failed dependencies:
librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-11
librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm2html-1.7-1
librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpmfind-1.7-2
librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2.2-2
librpmbuild-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2.2-2
librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-11
librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm2html-1.7-1
librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpmfind-1.7-2
librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2.2-2
librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-11
librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm2html-1.7-1
librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpmfind-1.7-2
librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2.2-2
>The "problem" with trying to install one of the
>packages was due to trying to use "rpm -i" instead of "rpm -U" ...
Notice that the -i attempt followed a failed -F run, and was then
followed by a failed -U.
> It's not rocket science.
Neither is ./configure && make && make install, but I'd rather not have
to resort to that for basic system utilities. Something is clearly out
of whack with the latest rpms. Or with rpm itself.
- -d
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David Talkington
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