All, I'm having a very difficult time upgrading my system with packages that depend on old, decrepit packages (eg. openssl-0.9.7a). The issue? I compile new ones with rpmbuild, and when I try to install them, I find out that there are several packages that depend on the old version of the packages I'm compiling. Hence it blocks any new ones from being installed - unless I uninstall everything that they are dependent on first. This can get really ugly, fast. What I'd like, instead, is the ability to go ahead and install newer versions without care as to what packages they 'break', knowing that I will compile newer versions of those packages in future using the new prereqs. Is there any way of possibly doing this, or am I stuck disentangling everything before I'm able to do anything? Ed (ps - also, I've been digging around in the fedora BuildRequires, and for the life of me, I can't figure out exactly HOW the hierarchy works. For example - glew BuildRequires libGLU-devel. libGLU-devel is provided by mason, which - you guessed it - BuildRequires glew. WTH!?? Is there an expert - or an external doc which describes the exact build order for the fedora packages? ) _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
