Re: gpilotd suddenly doesn't work

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev InTechnology co uk>]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 16:40, Richard Zach wrote:
> > Read the bug report. Any suggestions as to how to do
> > the downgrade?? RC obviosuly doesn't want to remove
> > 2.2.2 without gutting half of XD2. The most obviously
> > quick way is to just do a rpm -e and then a --nodep
> > (rpm install), but I'm not quite so sure that might
> > work. Suggestions?
> 
> I downloaded glib2-2.2.1-1.ximian.6.4.i386.rpm and
> File:glib2-devel-2.2.1-1.ximian.6.4.i386.rpm from
> ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/xd2/redhat-9-i386 , did
> 
> # rpm -e --nodeps glib2 glib2-devel
> # rpm -i glib2*rpm

In general using --nodeps is an admission of failure and (pretty much
permanently) breaks your rpm dependancy database.

I did this:-
  rpm -Uvh --oldpackage glib2*-2.2.1-1.ximian.6.4.i386.rpm


	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel Metheringham InTechnology co uk ]
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