From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Wed 19 Jun 2002 - 17:14:34 IST
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:45:22 BST, Kenn Humborg said:
> >
> >But then rpm -U, rpm -e and rpm -q won't work. I'm kind of funny in
> >that I actually believe in package managers...
>
> And they worked in the first place? ;-)
>
> RPMs etc. wouldn't be too bad, if RedHat did something vaguely
> approaching regular updates and builds of their rpms (which a lot
> of people will rely upon for keeping dependancies in track, and for
> up2date and stuff).
>
> [eg search for mozilla on http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/ ]
>
> <and yes whichever sarky f*** says ye can use rpmfind.net; then get
> yourself stuck into the wonderful circle of dependency madness>
What I usually do is download the source RPM and rebuild it.
Works in 90% of cases, and is easily fixed in most of the
remaining cases.
Later,
Kenn
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