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Re: RH4.2?



On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

> > > Now, while package management methods, including RPM, do have advantages
> > > (tidy systems, saves time, etc), RPM is still pretty flakey. The reason
> > > the whole discussion about upgrading to 4.2 started was that I tried
> > > upgrading to a newer pam, which required a newer pamconfig, which in turn
> > > required the version of pam I was trying to install. Thus making them both
> > > un-upgradable (I am _not_ going to force no-dependencies on something that
> > > can lock me out of my system). 
> > 
> > What is the problem? Mention both packages at the same time on the command
> > line of the "rpm -i" command (as in "rpm -i pam-* pamconfig-*"), and it
> > will install them flawlessly.
> 
> well, you try to install them from 4.2 onto a 4.1 system and then login.
> the dependencies were not the problem here.

Yaron was complaining about the impossibility of installing two packages
that depend on each other, and to that I responded. Of course if you want
to upgrade to a newer pamconfig you should also upgrade your util-linux,
sh-utils and others - but that's another business.


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