On Jan 20, 2002, 11:21 (-0500) Devon wrote: [ ...multisnipped .. ]
> Excellent, I'm glad it worked. I'd still be interested to know if > rebuilding the redhat provided database would have worked. > I may just pull out an old retired machine and try it. ;) Actually I did a 'rpm --rebuilddb' and then a 'rpm --initdb' before the install of the new rpmdb-redhat-7.2-0.20010924.i386.rpm, but to no avail ... I did not do a rpm --rebuilddb --dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/ tho', so I don't know whether that would have worked. > > The only problem I can think of by using the 'wrong' version of > rpmdb-redhat, is that it will return the package version from the list of > 7.2 packages. It shouldn't hurt anything though. ... yo, seems you're right: as you IIRC earlier said: --redhatrequires provides infos for a certain version of Redhat, in my case now Redhat 7.2 ... and the --whatrequires option seems to provide information only on the actually installed OS/packages, in my case more or less the stuff for a Redhat 6.2. See the following output I got here on my Redhat 6.2: $ rpm -q --redhatrequires netscape-common netscape-communicator-4.78-2 netscape-navigator-4.78-2 plugger-3.3-4 and compare it to this (same machine): $ rpm -q --whatrequires netscape-common netscape-communicator-4.77-0.6.2 and this: $ rpm -q netscape-common netscape-communicator netscape-common-4.77-0.6.2 netscape-communicator-4.77-0.6.2 But this doesn't bother me very much: at least I can get now some hints about dependency problems of packages that will not install, or that's at least what I'm hoping for ... :) Regards Wolfgang -- http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/w3m.html -- END TRANSMISSION -- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
