On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:43:49PM -0400, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > I find that rpm's still have lots of dependacy problems and it's not > intelligent enough to go out and resolve them without some > intervention. So a source tarball is still in my favor. If you don't know what the dependencies are, then a source tarball doesn't get you any closer to solving the problem. What you're essentially doing is a forced rpm install. rpm was never designed to resolve dependencies but to tell you what they are. There are other packages (up2date, yum, apt) that help with resolving the dependencies but none are perfect. The problem is hard by design and there's not a lot we can do about given the limitations of the OS (other OS's (VMS for example) are much easier to deal with because of all their intrinsic upwards compatibility. Executables built on VMS 20 years ago still run as is. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
