I have had little problem with rpm, and so far I have been playing with redhat for the last 4.5 years. poor me. :)
>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. > > Lately I have installed mandrake 8.2 and i have found that freetype 1.3 and freetype 2> co-exist nicely. So really I think you are looking at this whole issue incorrectly. This is what I get when running rpm -qa command. [kevin@buddy kevin]$ rpm -qa| grep freetype freetype-devel-1.3.1-12mdk freetype-1.3.1-12mdk freetype2-devel-2.0.6-1mdk freetype2-2.0.6-1mdk >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. > > What you might need to do is understand how some of the libraries work and how they depend on each other. >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
