Re: RPM doesn't do as it is told.

[Vidiot <vidiot cm nu>]

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>Hold on there partner.... ;-)
>
>If you had placed ALL of the netscape RPM's in the same directory and then
>
>rpm -Uvh netscape*.rpm
>
>RPM is smart enough to figure out that ALL of the dependancies are going to
>be met by installing all of the packages. It then sorts out the order of the
>installation for you and proceeds to install them as required by the apps...
>(You did grab ALL of the Netscape RPM's right?)

Yes, I downloaded all three.  Turns out only two were installed.  But that
is beside the point.  I had followed Redhat's own instructions on their
web site and it didn't work.  Their instructions were to rpm each file
individually.  I can only assume that Redhat doesn't know how to use its
own program :-)

Can't blame me for following their instructions and it doesn't work.

>Also you misunderstand the function of --force, you really meant --nodeps
>which would have forced the install IN SPITE OF failed dependancies, but
>this would not have been a good thing to do... as netscape would have been
>still missing the required libs...

I guess my dictionary's definition of force must be different than Redhat's
definition :-)  Doing --nodeps on the two Netscape packages should have resulted
in the correct install.  If not, then the web site should have correct
instructions.

>I've had VERY good luck with RPM, from my perspective it's the one thing
>that Redhat has really done right...

Except when told to update each file individually and it bitches at you
for doing so.  One tends to get mad, I certainly did.

>understanding it however practically requires reading "Maximum RPM" (which I
>did)...

One shouldn't have to read the book on doing a simple upgrade, if Redhat
had the instructions right in the first place.

Yes, I am beating them over the head about this.  Having bad instructions
is just as bad as having no instructions at all.  They need to test what
they put up on the web site.  We don't have time to second guess what they
really mean to do.

Thanks for the post.  Another person got me through it by doing a -e on
the package first (even that person didn't kow about wildcarding the RPM
files).

MB
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