On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 08:55:43AM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> Bill Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] spake thusly:
> > It's not rocket science.
>
> ...but it certainly violates the principle of least surprises. "Install"ing
> a "depend"ency should satisfy the dependency. If -U accompli
Bill Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] spake thusly:
> It's not rocket science.
...but it certainly violates the principle of least surprises. "Install"ing
a "depend"ency should satisfy the dependency. If -U accomplishes what -i
does not, that's counter-intuitive, to say the least.
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Bill Crawford wrote:
>> > I'm surprised they did that split in the updates, because the ideal
>> >is that you can indeed do a "rpm -Fvh *" in your updates directory.
>>
>> Yes, indeedy, like I was saying ...
>>
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote:
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> Bill Crawford wrote:
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> > rpm -Uvh popt-* rpm-* python-popt-0.8.7-7.x.2.i386.rpm
>kdeadmin-2.2.2-3.i386.rpm
> >
> > There is an update for kdeadmin which uses the newer librpm* in the
> >i38
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> Bill Crawford wrote:
> > I'm surprised they did that split in the updates, because the ideal
> >is that you can indeed do a "rpm -Fvh *" in your updates directory.
>
> Yes, indeedy, like I was saying ...
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Bill Crawford wrote:
> Well, just keep adding the missing packages onto the update command.
>There's an update for gnorpm too:
Yes, that did it, though I was greeted with a corrupt database
afterwards. --rebuilddb seemed to make it happy. Glad on
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> >The "problem" with trying to install one of the
> >packages was due to trying to use "rpm -i" instead of "rpm -U" ...
>
> Notice that the -i attempt followed a failed -F run, and was then
> followed by a failed -U.
Yes, but that's because you
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> > rpm -Uvh popt-* rpm-* python-popt-0.8.7-7.x.2.i386.rpm
>kdeadmin-2.2.2-3.i386.rpm
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> > There is an update for kdeadmin which uses the newer librpm* in the
> >i386 updates directory.
> You must have a golden touch, Bill ...
>
> hobson:i38
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Bill Crawford wrote:
>> I didn't go to that much trouble. But I tried up2date and got the same
>> error when updating rpm. So I tried popt and got the rpm error. I
>> downloaded everything to try it some more. Always the same problem with
>> the same
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Bill Crawford wrote:
>> Ask me again why I hate rpm ...
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> Well, it's that, or you have a broken system when you get the
>dependencies wrong :o)
>
> Seriously, it's the only sensible approach.
Hmm ... that's a pretty sweeping assertion ... ;-)
>I
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, ABrady wrote:
> I didn't go to that much trouble. But I tried up2date and got the same
> error when updating rpm. So I tried popt and got the rpm error. I
> downloaded everything to try it some more. Always the same problem with
> the same errors. This happened both before an
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:38:10 -0800 (PST)
David Talkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quietly intimated:
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> What, exactly, happened this week?
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> This is a full install, and I keep everything updated. The directory
> in which the commands below ar
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote:
> Ask me again why I hate rpm ...
Well, it's that, or you have a broken system when you get the
dependencies wrong :o)
Seriously, it's the only sensible approach. I *would* like to see
some more tools for package handling, but there's no serious o
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Dave Wreski wrote:
>> Did anyone else experience this circularity with this week's round of
>> updates?
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>Yeah, I sure did. Something bad happened. I'm not sure if it's related,
>but somehow netscape completely forgot all of it's preferences too.
>
> Did anyone else experience this circularity with this week's round of
> updates?
Yeah, I sure did. Something bad happened. I'm not sure if it's related,
but somehow netscape completely forgot all of it's preferences too.
I solved it by: (from my bash history)
- remove the rpm-python and rpm-
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