Re: RPMs require RPMs?

On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:08 AM, Simon Eisenmann wrote:
> Howard Fore wrote:
>> After encountering several issues with building an RPM of Python 
>> 2.3.3 for RedHat 9 (binary RPMs are only available for Fedora Core 1)
>
> The Fedora Core 1 RPMS can be used on RH9 as well.

No, not without db4.1, which isn't available for RH9. It is available 
for FC1, but that has a whole other host of problems:

> [[email protected] root]# rpm -Uvh db4-4.1*.rpm
> warning: db4-4.1.25-14.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
> 4f2a6fd2
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) 
> httpd-2.0.40-21.3.6.swsoft
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) python-2.2.2-26
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-2.1.10-4
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) pam-0.75-48
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) popa3d-0.6.3-5.rh9.swsoft
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) php-4.2.2-17.2.2.swsoft
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) perl-5.8.0-88.3
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
>         libdb-4.0.so is needed by (installed) db4-utils-4.0.14-20
>         db4 = 4.0.14-20 is needed by (installed) db4-devel-4.0.14-20
>         db4 = 4.0.14-20 is needed by (installed) db4-utils-4.0.14-20

<OT>

It's times like these that make me wonder why I'm doing this and why I 
don't just move the whole thing to an OS X server, that doesn't give me 
these problems. I'd much rather spend my time working "with" my server 
than "on" my server.

Or (to go even more OT) maybe I'm using the wrong distribution. I've 
been very frustrated by RedHat and Debian's method of creating little 
sandboxes in the versioning process, where you can move within the box, 
but not past it without upgrading the entire server. Surely there's a 
distro that would let me cascade the updates. I thought yum and apt-get 
for RH were supposed to fix these things. Grumble, grumble, grumble...

</OT>

If someone has a solution, please let me know.

--
Howard Fore, [email protected]