Re: [Fedora] Re: rpm problem

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 08/25/05

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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:12:00 +0100

    On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:15 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
    > Paul Howarth wrote:
    >
    > >See if this works:
    > >cd /mnt/storage/RH/Updates/4/i386
    > ># rpm -Uvh \
    > >glibc-2.3.5-10.3.i686.rpm \
    > >glibc-common-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm \
    > >glibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm \
    > >glibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3.i386.rpm
    > >
    > This works. However, my question still stands, why does it fail
    > initially when I do a wildcard update?

    I'd guess (and it is only a guess) that it sees the i386 version of the
    package first, discards the i686 version because it's the same
    version/release of the same package, and later finds out it actually
    needed the i686 version to match what you had installed.

    > >If you've mirrored the "repodata" directory along with the packages
    > >themselves, you could actually use yum:
    > >
    > >
    > I don't mirror that because I don't use yum. rpm has always proven
    > successful to me, so why change to yum (which I did and it caused me all
    > kinds of problems.)

    What sort of problems? Did the problems involve third-party repos?
    There's no need to use them - you could disable all but [core] and
    [updates-released] and still have useful functionality.

    In this particular instance, yum would have worked where rpm failed you.

    Paul. 

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