On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:40:51PM -0600, David Talkington wrote:
: Nothing will explode. When a pine rpm insists that it *needs*
: kerberos,
You mean like when pine is linked against the kerberos libs? If it's
linked against them, YOU NEED THEM.
: and a perl rpm insists that it *needs* tcsh,
Um, nope:
[anthrax:jcostom](09:08am)
/home/jcostom$ rpm -qR perl
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libcrypt.so.1
libdl.so.2
libm.so.6
libnsl.so.1
libdb-3.1.so
libdb.so.3
libgdbm.so.2
/usr/bin/perl
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
libcrypt.so.1(GLIBC_2.0)
libdb.so.3(GLIBC_2.0)
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.1)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
tcsh isn't on the list.
: I beg to
: differ. Like I said, it's not the first thing I'd try, but sometimes
: it's necessary. This is one reason I dislike rpm, and prefer to roll
: my own binaries whenever possible.
Oh, most of us prefer not breaking the packaging system, making system
maintenance easier, particularly when spread over many machines.
--
Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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