Re: dependency problems

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Friday, February 23, 2001 18:56:16 -0600, "Stephen M. Williams" 
<rootusr midsouth rr com> wrote:
+-----
| rpm -ivh packagename.rpm --force
+--->8

--force is almost never a good idea.  Use the minimum necessary to install 
the package, which in this case is --nodeps; --force makes rpm ignore many 
conditions which may come back to haunt you later.

An even better solution is to build a fake RPM for the older guile package, 
so the RPM database is consistent.  There are a few scripts which can 
automate this; check the archives for rpm-list redhat com   What this buys 
you is that things will work correctly when you do a full upgrade (either 
an OS upgrade or changes with a whole-system-view package manager such as 
Red Carpet or the RPM port of aptitude).  If you fake things now you will 
find that the next time you do a Red Hat upgrade it will break things and 
the upgrade might even fail because of the inconsistent database.

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