Re: SNMP package install question ...

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:26:38AM -0500, Linh Huynh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have updated the RPM package from version 4.0.2 to 4.0.3 because
> I need to be able to relocate my packages.  If I need to install the
> UCD-SNMP-4.2-12 package, it requests the librpm.so.0 and librpmio.so.o,
> which are in the rpm-4.0.2 package.  Is it O.K. for me to install the
> package
> using the following syntax:
> 
> 	rpm -Uv --nodeps ucd-snmp-4.2-12.i386.rpm
> 
> If there is a better way, please advice

That depends on whether you wish a functioning snmpd daemon or not.
If you use --nodeps, the daemon will not function.

The right thing to do is rebuild the 7.2 ucd-snmp packages against
rpm-4.0.3. Yes there's an errata in the works.

73 de Jeff

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