[Gllug] rpms is there an easier way?

[Jim Bailey]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 03:26:20AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Jim Bailey wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to download packages and install some stuff but I am
> > getting frustrated by dependency issues, the distro is Red Hat 7.3.
> > Could some one tell me if there is a set of commands that allows me to
> > pull down the dependencies I need with the package or do I need to keep
> > on playing chase the dependency all night?
> 
> Alas that is pretty much the one big weakness in the rpm package system.
>
This was my fear but I was hoping that someone might have a way of
making life easier.  At the current rate I will of spent more time
chasing packages to download than actually doing the tasks I need to do
tonight.

> Debian deb packages are much better for this.
>
I agree with you 100% here but this is a work related thing so I have to
do it with Red Hat. 
<bitch>
Apparently so I am told that Debian is a much more difficult distro to work
with, has out of date packages and doesn't support SMP. ;)
</bitch>

To be fair my experience of it this last month has been pretty positive,
only a few minor gripes about things not being like Debian but this rpm
thing really seem to suck from my perspective.

Peace Jim

"What the sense, feels what the spirit percieves, is never an end in
itself but sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the
end of all things, they are as vain as that.
--Nietzsche, Of the Despisers of the Body, Thus Spake Zarathustra



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