On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:40:37AM -0700, Warren L. DeLano wrote:
> RPM doesn't look at the file system (AFAIK), it looks in the RPM
> database for the names of (Redhat-specific) known dependency packages.
AFAIK, rpms can also declare file-dependencies. Whether this is a good
thing or not, I
Thanks for this Warren, but now I get a fresh set of error messages (still
no menus) with no obvious explanation along the lines of missing package
xxx.
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/threading.py", line 408, in __bootstrap
self.run(
Dan,
Opinions may vary, but I see RPMs are pretty heavily tied to the
distribution. The kind of errors you're seeing are to be expected when
trying to install cross-distribution.
RPM doesn't look at the file system (AFAIK), it looks in the RPM
database for the names of (Redhat-