On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 03:51, ABrady wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 02:16:26 -0600
> "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >     I just loaded Red Hat 7.3 RPM updates on a 7.2 release system. 
> >     Specifically, glibc-*-2.2.5-36 RPMs were loaded (upgraded) on the
> >     system.  Should I expect horrible things now?  Did I just screw
> >     myself into yet another long week and weekend ahead?
> 
> If it didn't complain when it installed, there shouldn't be any problems
> to worry about. If it complained and you used '--nodeps' or '--force'
> expect new-certain disaster.

what he said.  FYI RedHat does a great job IMNSHO of keeping binary
compatability between all realeases of the same major number.  Couple
that with RPM's dependency checking and you get a situation that any rpm
from 7.x should work with and other 7.y installation.

Bret



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