Gene C. wrote:
For those who would like to use up2date --
The currently is a bug in up2date (already reported at least once in bugzilla)
which does not allow selection or moving to the next step (downloading and
then install) UNLESS there is an exception package to select.
So, until up2date is fixed, you can use it by adding a packages (that needs
updating anyway) to the Package Exceptions and then select it when you run
up2date.
I wish I understood yum better and it could probably do the just just fine but
with the current conflicts in development, there is no easy way to select
packages. (OK Seth, tel me how to do it).
Thanks for the workaround for up2date. I guess if you added all packages
. (an * to the exceptions), it would allow you to select all packages.
Regarding yum, I started using it even for FC3. With FC3 it is just a
matter of running 'yum upgrade' as root from a terminal. For development
use, it is a complete nightmare when there are packages that do not meet
the required library versions. Though there was the rationality that
yum should quit if any package requirement is not met, it would be
easier for yum to do the best with packages that conditions are met and
report on programs that it could not resolve conflicts for. It doesn't
seem the best practice to have to feed a long list of exclude packages
to the yum parameter for development.
I reported the up2date problem after symlinking the libssl and other
newer version library to get up2date to even function. When yum went
down also, I went back to RHL 5.2 method of downloading rpms listed to a
directory, then installing directly with rpm. It was not much different
than having to download tar files for selection and install when RHN was
overloaded.
Jim