On 17 Jan 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote: >Thank you very much. I am perhaps closer now. When trying out only >your packages, a lot was kissing, but this is due to all the old >packages I have installed that has to be upgraded. > >Therefore I tryied the big one once more: > > rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm >warning: fontconfig-2.1-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a >warning: package redhat-config-xfree86 = 0.7.1-3 was already added, replacing with redhat-config-xfree86 <= 0.7.1-5 >error: Failed dependencies: > libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) is needed by ttmkfdir-3.0.5-1 > kernel-drm = 4.2.99.2 is needed by XFree86-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by XFree86-libs-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by XFree86-tools-4.2.99.3-20021230.4 > >However, I'll try to use --force or something. You will severely hose your system. The --force and --nodeps rpm options should not ever be used in 99% of the cases most people use them. Most people just do not understand the proper way to solve a given RPM issue at hand, and resort to the --force and/or --nodeps sledgehammers. There are valid and safe uses of those commandline switches however only experienced users should use them and only with great care. Forcing a dependancy does not make the dependancy exist. It makes the software fail some time later on when the reason the dependancy exists is triggered but not present on the system due to using forcing and ignoring dependancies. In this case, rawhide is mildly unstable right now. The addition of NPTL to glibc is in beta testing in order to find bugs. X is saying it requires rawhide glibc above, which means it _requires_ rawhide's glibc. If you force it, expect problems. I also don't recommend solving it by installing rawhide glibc either. ;o) /me adds more confusion to the puzzle. >> Last but not least, maybe you're indeed getting RawHide wrong; it >> suffers from the same conceptual flaw all RPM-based distros suffer: >> there is no automatic way of retrieving all packages necessary for a >> specific installation because dependencies cannot be resolved >> automatically (a la Debian's apt-get). RawHide is merely a repository >> for bleeding-edge packages. > >Yes, that is a little bit irritating with rpm. Irritating perhaps to some. But intentional. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
