[18088] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux install athena-base errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Aug 2 16:23:22 2000
To: tb@mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 02 Aug 2000 16:23:17 -0400
In-Reply-To: tb@MIT.EDU's message of "02 Aug 2000 15:11:29 -0400"
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<tb@MIT.EDU> (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> athena-base has a require against sh-utils, which should cause at
> least date to exist first. are you sure this is in the packages you
> are installing?
IIRC, if package X requires package Y, that just means that RPM won't
let you *end* a run with only X installed. I think you need to
specify the dependency as a "prereq (or something; I don't remember
the exact keyword.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
