Re: Alien rpms

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:48:01 +0200 Zbynek Houska <zbynh world-online no>
imparted to us:

> Is it any possibilty to use "alien" rpms, Mandrake particularly? I run
> into "solving dependencies" problems when I tryed to install Mutt and 
> Evolution. It demands some packages which are standarts for Gnome 1.4 
> (not under RH 7.1). I would to avoid to download it again.
> Sometimes it doesn't recognize some packages corectly ," openssl" for 
> instans - it's used in RH 7.1 too. How to get rid of those "pseudo" 
> dependencies?

Most mandrake rpms work. Some don't. You may run into some of the same
dependency problems (A needs B, B needs C, C can't upgrade because you
already have something installed that conflicts with some but not all of
it, D needs a newer version of E, E can't be upgraded because F needs a
file in the current version of E that doesn't exist in the new version
of E, etc).

For problems like those, I'd suggest you get familiar with
--replacefiles and --nodeps while being careful not to --foobar
everything.

> Or if I have SRPMS how do I create RPMS suitable for my system?

rpm --rebuild <SRPM> [--target=iX86/athlon/whatever]

The --target tag is optional. The resulting file will end up in:

/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/iX86 (will depend on --target given, i386 by
default)
OR
/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch (for those that can go on any platform)

But, to get answers to this type of thing, you really should read man
rpm and see what's available. I may have no idea what I'm going on
about.

And the --target tag hasn't worked for me on rpm-4.0.3-anything, which
come with Roswell and Rawhide. So there may be other variations on the
above as well if/when you have them installed.

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