[plug] Redhat/RPM dependency question

[Steve Grasso]

*deep sigh*

Yes....yes......I know.........I have two systems which have been running 
potato since its beta release, and slink before that, and they pretty much 
look after themselves (*tips hat toward Debian developers*). No-one will 
argue that apt-get doesn't kick butt, nor should they suggest that I should 
use Debian....I already do. However, for a variety of reasons I'm also 
responsible for several machines running various release versions of RH and 
Mdk. So for those machines and for the sake of Pete's original question, does 
anyone have a better system of handling RPM dependency issues than the one I 
outlined (very briefly and a little tongue-in-cheek)? If so, I'd still like 
to hear about it -- not that I consider it a huge issue for me.

Regards,
Steve

On Monday 20 August 2001 12:01, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Steve Grasso wrote:
> > > Hi Pete,
> > >
> > > On Monday 20 August 2001 10:51, Peter Wright wrote:
> > > > I'd appreciate it even more if
> > > > you could tell me (or drop a subtle hint to me :) what the general
> > > > technique is for working out these sort of dependency issues.
> > >
> > > 1) Aquire patience
> > > 2) http://rpmfind.net/ and search on the required dependency.
> > > 3) Grab the best fit RPM. Pray you have the same version of RPM.
> > > 4) Install/upgrade the package
> > > 5) Find the next failed dependency
> > > 6) Deep breaths.....1......2......
> > > 7) Repeat 2-6 as required or until your system fails to respond
> > >
> > > If anyone has a better system, I'd like to hear about it.
> >
> > I've got Debian.
> >
> > Well, you asked.
> >
> > -Greg Mildenhall
>
> Debian is the way to go :)
>
> --
> Chris Crawford