On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Ed Wilts wrote:
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:29:09PM -0500, Matt England wrote:
Scenario:
I want to install a new-package.rpm package that depends on the postgresql
database rev X. However, I've built postgresql rev X from source and
installed it using 'make install'.
What do I do?
You don't do what you did. You should have built an rpm for postgresql
rev X and installed it. The new-package should have listed this as
dependency.
Can I somehow tell the 'rpm -Uhv new-package.rpm' command to selectively
"overlook" the postgresql dependency, but no other dependencies?
No.
Or must I run a normal command, resolve all the other dependencies first,
and then run something like a '--force' (or whatever the rpm
override-dependency command is) to effectively override just the postgres
dep?
This is just plain bad. rpm is there for a good reason and mixing rpm
and non-rpm packages is asking for a mess. Don't cheat the system and
don't ask people to install with a --force (way, way too many people
have shot themselves in the foot using --force).
--force has nothing to do with dependencies anyway. The
dependency-override option is --nodeps. The same warnings apply, however,
in spades.
.../Ed
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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