On Monday 12 January 2004 13:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > No, not at all. rpm often can't sort out circular dependencies when > you're trying to install a bunch of updates. You must break the > cycle somehow, and --nodeps is the way to do it. Remember that > up2date (and I suppose yum and apt) look at these things and call rpm > with appropriate flags to break the loop. I'm just doing it > manually. wrong. Absolutely wrong. If you have to use --nodeps to apply an upgrade then either A) you're using rpm wrong, or B) you've got the wrong updates. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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