On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:08 -0500, John Swartzentruber wrote: > On 2/14/2005 3:39 PM Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:31:22 -0500, John Swartzentruber > > <nospam2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>I think this is a more general question than just MySQL, so I'm asking > >>it here. > >> > >>I am running FC3, which comes with MySQL 3.23. I would like to run a > >>more recent version. I tried updating to version 4.1 using yum and the > >>fedora-devel repository, but after downloading lots of updates and > >>dependencies, it still ended up with an incompatibility and didn't do > >>the update. > > > > > > remove the fedora provided mysql rpms and use the ones provided by mysql.com > > What will this do to rpms that depend on the mysql-3.23 rpm? Depends on how the depends are specified (= or >=) and how different the new MySQL is from the old. > > For that matter, how do I determine what depends on a package? I did a > "man yum" and a "man rpm", but I didn't see what I was looking for (I > did find the reverse). Is there a good way to determine in advance what > a "yum remove" will do without having it actually remove a package and > all packages that depend on it? One way - do "yum remove <package>" and then (carefully) answer no. Phil
