rpm --nodeps vs. yum/apt
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 18 13:23:33 UTC 2003
Clif Smith said:
> This is a little off topic as I'm dealing with Redhat 2.1AS in this
> scenario, but please read on.
You could have at least used the Taroon-list.
> Currently, I just do a rpm --Uvh --nodeps to allow the
> packages to be installed, knowing I'm installing the necessary
> dependants, but possibly not in the "correct" order.
This doesn't fall under a good reason to use "--nodeps" (there aren't
many). If you install the RPMs using one command (for example rpm -Uvh
*.rpm) then RPM takes care of the dependancies. Using nodeps leaves the
possibility of missed packages, version conflicts, etc.
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William Hooper
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