[plug] rpm and dependencies

[Ari Finander]

Thanks Russel,

Please see my latest mail to the plug list regarding the errors I got,
especially the errors with the commands you just clarified for me.  As
a necessary note that I omitted from the most recent email, I did try
rpm -Fvh glibc-[dp]* nscd-* with the space between the two files, as
well as with no space between them, and both times errors occured.
The errors with the command without the space were included in the
email, the errors received after using the command with the space are:
error: cannot open file glibc-[dp]*: No such file or directory
error: cannot open file nscd-*: No such file or directory

Ari


Original message from: Russell Keith-Magee <keithmag at cs.curtin.edu.au>
>
>Ari Finander wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> RedHat.com's security advisory for glibc recommends downloading:
>> glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm
>> glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm
>> glibc-devel-2.2-12.i386.rpm
>> glibc-profile-2.2-12.i386.rpm
>> nscd-2.2-12.i38d.rpm
>> and then installing them with:
>> rpm -Uvh glibc-[2c]*
>> rpm -Fvh glibc-[dp]*nscd*
>> Now I understand what the rpm -Uvh and Fvh do, but what's with the
>> package syntax and the brackets??
>
>Oops...
>Sorry for the second post - but I forgot to answer your first
question.
>
>Linux/Unix shells have a much richer set of shell expansion functions
>than does DOS/Windows. In addition to:
>
>* - expand to 1 or more characters
>? - expand to exactly 1 character
>
>you can use
>[...] - expand to any one of the characters in the brackets.
>
>i.e.,
>[asdf] expands to either a, s, d, or f.
>[2c] expands to either a 2 or a c.
>You can also specify ranges:
>[a-p1-4] expands to any letter between a and p, or any number between
1
>and 4, inclusive.
>
>So, glibc-[dp]* will expand to any name starting with glibc-d or
glibc-p
>(devel and profile in this case).
>
>Kinda nifty little trick this one.
>
>Russ %-)
>
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>School of Computing, Curtin University of Technology
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