Re: jumpstarting yum on 7.2

[Eric Rostetter <rostetter mail utexas edu>]

Quoting g <gmott ntlworld com>:

> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 20:42, Eric Rostetter wrote:
> > Quoting g <gmott ntlworld com>:
> > > #  rpm -Uvh --nodeps /tmp/yum-* /tmp/rpm-* /tmp/popt-*
> >
> > You should not have to use --nodeps.  If you do, then something is wrong.
>
> what is "wrong" is that i did not want to bother to manually download
> gnorpm, kdeadmin, et al, which i did not need just to get yum going, and
> which would get downloaded automatically anyway when i ran yum update.

Ah, okay.  Forgot about those strange packages like gnorpm et al.

The rpm upgrade process is indeed going to be a pain to document and/or
automate...

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Eric Rostetter