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

["Yuki Taga" <yukitaga twics com>]

My experience here was just a bit different.  (And I'll cover a couple of 
bases here to save time and space on the server.)  

Vidiot, I was the "another person" who told you to remove netscape-
common before doing the upgrade on the other two packages.  And I 
certainly *do* know about wild carding.  I just didn't use that as an 
example, because you used --force where --nodeps was called for, so I 
didn't know if I should further confuse you.  (I also told you -- politely at 
first, off-list, so as not to embarrass -- about --nodeps being the right 
command instead of --force.  (I read Maximum rpm before I ever 
installed Linux.)

Now, back to the situation below.  <g>  I tried putting all both the 
common and communicatior upgrades in one directory and wild-
carding, as I think Gordon suggested today, but it didn't work for me.  I 
was kind of surprised, but there you go.  Jan Carlson was nice enough 
to put me on to a way to do it.  Now, the actual command I used was 
different than the one Gordon suggested.  I tried rpm -Uvh netscape-
comm*.  So maybe my command was wrong.  The only other thing I want 
to hear about this is if somebody did it that way successfully or not.  <g>

Anyway, <g> we're all happy now because we all know how to do it, 
right?  Next topic.  ^^_^^

Yuki ^_^

On 31 May 99, at 3:42, Jose M. Sanchez wrote:

> 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?)
> 
> 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've had VERY good luck with RPM, from my perspective it's the one thing
> that Redhat has really done right... understanding it however practically
> requires reading "Maximum RPM" (which I did)...
> 
> Besides the "--rebuild --target i686" option is worth it's weight in
> gold...