RE: [tlug] RedHat up2date funnies

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

["Howland, Curtis" (RE: [tlug] RedHat up2date funnies) writes:]
>> 
>> > error: failed dependencies:
>> > It certainly seems to be a chicken-and-egg dependency problem.
>> 
>> This would likely be a bad time to mention dselect, right?

Well, it's a bit like me asking about a problem with my Mercedes, and
you saying "well if you had a BMW ......"   8-)}

>> I have actually had such a round-robin dependency problem in Debian once. About a year ago. I had to press "Q"in dselect to get past it.
>> 
>> The RPM's have a "force" option, right? Just a thought.

It has, and I can do it, but I'm put off by the thought that it could
cause more problems than the new versions solve.

I used to run on a "ain't-broke-don't-fix" basis, but having been hacked
I'm out to apply every security upgrade I can. Most of the vulnerability
problems with linuxes appear to be associated with users getting root
access, which is not a major problem for me.

Jim

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