On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Pat Dugal wrote:
> Thanks for the --nodeps and ldd tip, I will probably use that method at
> another point for installing another RedHat package.
... this is off the general topic of ssh, so I'll make
short and sweet. This is an ongoing thread in redhat-devel,
with John Summerfield in AU holding RH's feet to the coals.
Don't fall into the trap of --force and --nodeps -- get the
dependencies right and don't force -- to do otherwise will
result, eventually, in an unusable machine. I speak from the
experience of cleaning up after less experiences sysadmins who
took this route.
If need be, pull the SRPM, and build it locally into RPM
format -- as you solve the dependencies necessary to build,
you'll also produce a fully functional RPM, which will install
without these artifices; The folks at Redhat have some tech
staff making SPEC files with 'everything but the kitchen sink'
required at the end of the RPM build process;
This is simply wrong, and might be preceived as a a
shortsighted atempt by RH to lock a sysadmin into _their_
flavor of a distribution [maybe intentional, maybe not --
'Never attribure to malice that shich may be explained by
ignorance.']
Build it yourself -- but _please_ don't short circuit the
protections of the RPM method with '--nodeps' and '--force'
-- Russ Herrold
