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Re: update.pl

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Jul 25 15:36:42 1997

To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Jul 1997 15:36:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: Erik Nygren's message of Fri, 25 Jul 1997 15:03:09 EDT

Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU> writes:

> The RedHat errata page says essentially that the RPM
> is broken and you need to use --nodeps on it.
> (This problem even happens under 4.2).

Sigh.  Ok.

> > PS: I _though_ we already added --nodeps to the rpm line?
> 
> It doesn't seem to be there.  Should we add it?
> It could prevent problems in some cases and cause 
> problems in other cases.

I know it was there, and then it wasn't.. Personally, I'm not sure
what to do.  If redhat knows about the problem, I dont see why they
can't fix it.

-derek

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