Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi David, > What do people do in chicken-and-egg situations like this? I'm all ears for a > solution (a pointer to an appropriate net.resource is fine, too). Just out of curiosity, I tried this at home :-). It didn't kill me nor my 6.2 firewall. (I used my backup partition, jus

Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-30 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, John N. Alegre wrote: > will work for packages that are mutually dependent. But when I tried this with > rpm and glibc going from RedHat 5.2 > 6.0 the exact thing Thomas is pointing > out happened and it took me a week to get the system back to where it was to > begin with.

Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, John N. Alegre wrote: > I will try to be less RUDE here, but I am getting tired of people answering > this problem with answers that they have not tried. > > Kyrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The solution is to use the go-between version of RPM from the 3.x > > version

Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread John N. Alegre
I will try to be less RUDE here, but I am getting tired of people answering this problem with answers that they have not tried. Kyrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The solution is to use the go-between version of RPM from the 3.x > versions [ version 3.0.5 ] which is capable of reading RPM v4 fo

Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David Ruggiero wrote: > > Today's fun and games: > > Okay, so I want to upgrade to the newest version of "patch", which I > apparently need for some of the latest-and-greatest kernel patches. (This > is for my firewall machine - generic RH6.2 with a fairly-current 2.2.17

Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread Kyrian
Hi, The solution is to use the go-between version of RPM from the 3.x versions [ version 3.0.5 ] which is capable of reading RPM v4 format files, AFAIK. K. Here's the bulk of the RedHat advisory I believe explains it:- -

RE: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread eric clover
Rude "John N. Alegre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been following this thread carefully because I am having the same problem. you can follow things?? i can see you have problems. comments: "eric clover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man rpm > No clue here. The guy does not even understa

RE: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread John N. Alegre
I have been following this thread carefully because I am having the same problem. comments: "eric clover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > man rpm > No clue here. The guy does not even understand the problem. "Burke, Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try rpm -Fvh foo > and [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Nope, F == freshen (i.e. only install if there's an older version already) -f is force but --nodeps is probably what you're looking for anyway. JW At 02:06 PM 11/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Try rpm -Fvh foo > >The F switch forces the installation, I believe. > >> -Original Message---

Re: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread eric clover
man rpm INSTALL AND UPGRADE OPTIONS The general form of an rpm install command is rpm -i [install-options] + This installs a new package. The general form of an rpm upgrade command is rpm -U [install-options] + This upgrades or installs the packag

RE: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm

2000-11-29 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Try rpm -Fvh foo The F switch forces the installation, I believe. > -Original Message- > From: David Ruggiero [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 2:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Chicken-and-egg problem with glibc and rpm > > Today's fun and ga