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  From: Brian Marr <cabernet@internode.on.net>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:51:10 +0930

Re: RPM dependencies and RedHat Advisories... rant

Some people on the Suse list are experimenting with aptget. It can be 
downloaded as an rpm. 

Brian Marr


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:39, Michael Neuling wrote:
> If Redhat insist on using a package management tool which sucks, I which
> they would at least tell you how to get around the problems in their
> advisories.
>
> When they released the updated version of the printconf tools, they added
> Omni to the dependencies of ghostview.  In their advisory
> (http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-138.html) it said to
> download all the RPMs and run 'rpm -Fvh [filenames]'.  But if you don't
> have Omni installed then it doesn't work as 'rpm -F' will only update
> packages which are already installed.  The default 7.2 install didn't
> install Omni so all of my work machines failed if I followed the advisory
> instructions.  In this case it was simple to overcome by installing Omni
> first, so why doesn't the advisory say this??
>
> This happened again when they released new RPM RPMs recently.
>   http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2002-024.html
> except this time the solution was far from clear.
>
> How are newbies suppose to do this when even the instructions from the
> vendor are not clear?  Do they have to use Redhat's up2date and ignore the
> advisories?
>
> It also seems to me that RPM needs another, option similar to freshen '-F',
> which installs packages which aren't installed but are required to be
> installed by packages which _are_ being upgraded. eg. Omni is not installed
> but is required by the new version of ghostscript (which is install) so
> install it anyway.  Does anything like this exist?
>
> Regards,
> Michael

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