On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 at 09:45, Rommel B. Abaya wrote:
>try include --nodeps in your rpm switch
This would be forcing things, and that's generally not so good an idea.
Unless you know what you're doing, of course, which is why that option's
there. The seeming problem of RPM is its upgrading of "really important
things". I've messed up systems upgrading glibc, for example, and have
generally disliked RedHat's distro-upgrade feature. Because of this I've
always opted to clean-install.
You may want to do the following:
1. Try it out. Install pieces one by one. If one upgrade complains because
of dependency issues, install them. AFAIK RPM reorders packages when
installing/removing. I don't know what it uses as basis for this, though.
You may want to RTFM.
2. Do a clean install. Painful if you miss something out, though, and it's
not as straightforward (might cause extra downtime, but at least you've
got a clean setup).
3. Wait for apt to be ported to RPM.
4. Use something that already uses apt, like say, Debian.
Note: for those of you who may not like my blatant plug, please give me
credit for putting this distribution-centric suggestion as the last on my
list. But really, when I started using Debian, I just loved it. Except of
course for the fact that package releases are a little slow, forcing me to
figure out how to roll my own packages out (from tar.gz, I make the deb,
and this is not as 1-2-3 as using an available spec file for RPM).
--> Jijo :-)
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