On 2001.01.18 Andrew George wrote:
>
> The gotcha is (of course there is one) that RPM dosn't handle dependancy
> problems that well and you can run the command and just get a screenfull of
> broken dependancy links thrown back at you for your trouble
>
Especially when package conventions have changed from 7.2 to cooker in the
sense that a 7.2 package that was
pack.x.y.z
pack-devel.x.y.z
now is split in libs and binaries and looks as:
libpack.x.y.z
libpack-devel.x.y.z
pack.x.y.z
So rpm -F only tries to update pack, and misses libpack-xxxxxxxx
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