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Re: RH4.2?
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Yaron 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.
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