[CLUE-Tech] Lazy person question

[Don Collier]

I have installed all of these updates in the past (on other machines) one at
a time so I have made sure that all of the dependencies were met.  The
reason that I use the --nodeps option is that they might be out of order but
everything that it needs will be installed.

Don Collier
df_collier at hotmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Robbert" <mrobbert at mines.edu>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] Lazy person question


> Don,
> I wouldn't use --nodeps unless you have a real reason to. The
> dependencies are there for a reason. Also, if you are trying to
> update already installed RPMS then you might want to use
> --freshen or -F instead of -U. -U will install anything that
> isn't already there, maybe that's what you want to do, but I just
> wanted to point that out as I had to use it recently when I
> downloaded the entire set of updates from Red Hat and didn't want
> to install anything that wasn't already there.
> But to answer your question, yes using something like *.rpm as
> your package file will work fine.
>
> * Don Collier (df_collier at hotmail.com) wrote:
>
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