can't update mozilla with up2date

[Jim Cornette]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 20:33, Ken Chamberlain wrote:
> 
> 
>>Yes... "up2date --show-orphans" should show you any upgrade leftovers
>>(as well as non-FC1 extras).
> 
> 
> Can one safely remove these packages?
> If so, is there anything better than "rpm -e" ?
> 
> (I'm not clear if up2date keeps a record of what it does
> separate to rpm's record.)
> 

The up2date --show-orphans feature is pretty decent. The information 
pointed only to other sources (Freshrpms, realplayer, etc)


I had problems with up2date installing from my local directory. I 
downloaded the 1.5-1 version of mozilla into a local directory (included 
in listing of /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources )

What happened when I ran up2date was that only three rpms were installed 
for mozilla. Mail was not installed. I also tried running rpm -Uvh 
mozilla*.rpm and it did not install the additional rpms. If I installed 
the 1.5-1 versioned  rpms individually, with rpm -U <packagename>, it 
installed alright.

Is there a change with rpm so that rpm -Uvh <packagename> doesn't 
install available programs?

Why would grouped rpms, like with mozilla remove prior installed rpms, 
but not reinstall the upgraded version? Is this a problem with the rpm 
structures, up2date with local directories or the rpm, (the program).

I am just confused with the behavior exhibited. Installing the desired 
rpms manually was not that difficult.


Jim

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