All,
Thanks to all who offered your solutions. Fortunately, they converged on one (rpm -Uvh ...), and it ran just fine. I followed Paul's advice and put the four rpms on one line for this.
A couple of fillips to the end game: rpm has a fail safe: I had forgotten to backup my swat control file; rpm, rather than blithely overwriting it, simply created swat.rpmnew instead. I had only to copy that into the original swat control file. Then, however, to get SWAT to run (I was getting a connection refused to localhost:901 error), I had to change "disable = yes" to "disable = no".
Eric Hines
At 04/19/05 08:41, you wrote:
The Samba packages on Fedora 3 should be installed like this:
rpm -Uhv --nodeps /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/samba-common-3.0.14a-1.i386.rpm rpm -Uhv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/samba-3.0.14a-1.i386.rpm rpm -Uhv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/samba-client-3.0.14a-1.i386.rpm
nodeps is bad.
Put all the packages on one rpm line and you'll be fine. That allows rpm to figure out for itself that you've got your ducks in a row and trust that if it does just what you said everything will be all right.
<snip>there is one place where a --nodeps or even a --force is useful. When you do a yum upgrade you need to push a couple packages (like rpm itself) in really hard to get it to kick off right, but that's a pretty specific situation where you're upgrading pretty much everything on the system anyway. On a regular package and a functioning system, --nodeps is a no-no, especially if you don't know why you want to use it in the first place.
Don't forget to backup /var/lib/samba/* and /etc/samba/* before the update and after the shutdown of all samba deamons.
Alex.
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