Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Richard Bos <radoeka@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op woensdag 1 oktober 2003 06:11, schreef Jerry A!:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:56:16PM -0400, Ed Harrison wrote:
> : I followed Mantel's suggestion to use "--nodeps" when installing the
> : above kernel and sources.
> :
> : Now, I can no longer use Apt-get.  It wants to uninstall 2 broken
> : packages.
> :
> : Will apt-get work with rpm 4.0.4?
>
> Yes, apt-get will work w/rpm v4.  However, 8.2 doesn't have v4.  And
> apt-get (as far as I know) will not allow you to override or installed
> w/failed dependencies.
>
> Here's what I did to get it working:
>     1. remove mantel-kernel from sources.list
>     2. 'rpm -e' the kernel (k_deflt, k_athlon, k_smp, k_whatever)
>     3. remove the apt cache files (/var/cache/apt/*.bin)
>     4. 'apt-get update'
>     5. install your kernel
>     6. 'apt-get update'
>
> One of those 'apt-get updates' may be redundant.  Basically, apt needs
> to regen it's caches w/o knowing anything about the kernel.

3 and 4 are not needed.  Just do 1, 2, 5.
Apt reads the rpm database so it knows what happened.

You can fake the rpm database using a rpm that says it provides rpm4.  I'll 
provide the rpm off list.

-- 
Richard Bos
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