X-pop3-spooler: POP3MAIL 2.1.0 b 4 980420 -bs- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:18:11 +0100 (BST) From: "Dr H. T. Leung" Reply-To: "Dr H. T. Leung" To: Shawn Leas cc: david , pcg AT goof DOT com, beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl, johan19 AT idt DOT net Subject: RPM (was Re: libc-5.4.22?!?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Marc Lehmann Status: RO X-Status: A Content-Length: 1255 Lines: 27 Oh, I have definitely used the rpm system. I d/loaded it from RedHat and installed it (of course I did not have a RedHat dist in the first place). But nobody ever told me the one important fact: - On a non-RedHat distribution, the rpm database does not work, - i.e. it will not allow you to install things except with the "-nodeps" - (by force). What's more, the rpm database is not updated by - "-nodeps ", so after installation, you cannot deinstall either, as it - complains that it was never installed in the first place. And you ended - up having to do a query and remove every file by hand. This is the - behaviour of RPM 2.5.1. So these days I do "rpm2cpio something.src.rpm |cpio --extract" exclusively and do everything by hand. People said rpm's are nice, but it doesn't work for me. On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Shawn Leas wrote: > So, you've never used it so you have to complain. OK, I understand. RPM > is a nice package management system that any distribution can use. You > CAN query/verify installed packages or package files you haven't installed > yet.. > > Noone started a holy war about distributions, and you should try to > either. I like RedHat, SuSe, Slackware, Stampede, and yes, even FreeBSD > for there individual merits.