Re: Wreckage following RHEL U3 update

[Carl Riches <riches ms washington edu>]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Carl Riches wrote:

>
> We found out that the RHEL U3 update partially removes our LPRng
> installation.  We don't yet know what caused this, but we think that
> it was caused by the cups package update.  We'll know more later, as
> we do more testing.
>
> The RHEL U3 update removes the LPRng package entry from the RPM database.
> It also removes the lpr, lpq, lpd, etc. binaries.  It does not touch
> the /etc/printcap file, the /etc/lpd directory nor the /etc/rc*.d/ files.
>
> We've not had this problem with past updates.  Has anyone else run into a
> problem like this?
>

We just tested this by removing cups and its dependencies from a system,
then running up2date.  For some reason, up2date re-installs cups, then
wrecks the LPRng RPM installation.  How do we prevent this?

Thanks,
Carl

Carl G. Riches
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Department of Mathematics
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