jumpstarting yum on 7.2
Eric Rostetter
rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Sat Feb 21 03:59:36 UTC 2004
Quoting g <gmott at ntlworld.com>:
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 20:42, Eric Rostetter wrote:
>> Quoting g <gmott at ntlworld.com>:
>> > # rpm -Uvh --nodeps /tmp/yum-* /tmp/rpm-* /tmp/popt-*
>>
>> You should not have to use --nodeps. If you do, then something is wrong.
>
> what is "wrong" is that i did not want to bother to manually download
> gnorpm, kdeadmin, et al, which i did not need just to get yum going, and
> which would get downloaded automatically anyway when i ran yum update.
Ah, okay. Forgot about those strange packages like gnorpm et al.
The rpm upgrade process is indeed going to be a pain to document and/or
automate...
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Eric Rostetter
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