On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 10:32, JW wrote:
Anyway, that's not the worst of YOU's problems - it uses it's own internal patch manager and never consults rpm.
What?!?!?! Holy crap... There are a number of dependencies I've resolved and indeed packages I've installed by searching the 'Net and rpm'ing into place, both from the command-line and using GUI package managers. It was my expectation with these tools, and with YOU, that the underlying rpm-database was sound, current, and accurate.
I had to hack some things to get YOU to wake up. This is very bad.
I agree! Wholeheartedly! Sync'ing should never be a problem, because a tool like YOU (or Webmin) should sit atop the database.
Also if you download, say 5 updates (this actually happened to me) and during the install part rpm gives an error, say on the second package, the installation ceases (i.e. the remaining packages do _not_ get installed) yet YOU marks them as successfully installed anyway.
Separate problem, to be sure, but again "Holy Crap!" :-(
This is very bad.
I did not know about these problems... Yes, I agree these are really serious issues, Jonathan. -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng., Member IEEE Technical University of B.C. - Research Lab Engineer mailto:gordon.pritchard@techbc.ca direct phone: 604-586-6186