On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 05:50, you wrote: > You make it sound like an ominous road that you have already been down. > Is there anyway of knowing the 'prereqs' and 'coreqs' in advance, or is > this strictly a case of 'one-thing-leads-to-another'?
rpm cannot look ahead for dependencies. It cannot tell you what modutils needs until it has its ehands on the package. You _can_ get horrible dependency chains, but so long as you use packages "built for RHL 7.2" that is fairly unlikely. OTOH, adding a package designed for SuSE, Mandrake, Yellow Dog or whatever could be another matter altogether. As might a package for RHL 8.0;-) -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
