After hearing alot of people flame the rpm system I have finally decided that they were right for doing so. I have had endless problems with the rpm system on my mandrake system.
I was simply trying to update FreeType from 1.3 to 2.0 fso that my wine installation would stop complaining. so I decided to remove FreeType 1.3 because it wouldn't upgrade to 2.0...but to do that i had to remove a heap of other dependnecies like php-gd, ghostscript, libSDL, fonts-ttf, VFlib, XFre86-libs. to uninstall those I had to also uninstall a heap of their dependencies as well. anyway i've been at it for an hour and a half straight. I've had 5 errors saying "db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed" the rpm system is just a mess. I couldn't find any front end which could simplify the removal of all these dependencies...probably because there were so many branching off others so its all being done by hand. I wouldn't be supprised if my system fails to work properly afterwards. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
