Re: Strange problem upgrading to 7.0.3x

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:

> Use --nodeps to override dependencies.  It is complaining because RPM
> apparently has no record of /lib/cpp -- rpm --rebuilddb may be needed.
> RPM's dependencies are not checked against the filesystem, but against
> the RPM database.  You can verify this by executing 'rpm -qf /lib/cpp'
> -- see what it says.

Lamar,

  I was hoping that you'd answer, and you did. And all I can say is,
"d'uh!". I must have been more incapacitated by my head cold than I
realized. Of course, the switch I've used before is "--nodeps", not
"--force". And, I understand that the rpm database doesn't know about files
installed from a tarball.

> However, the error should not have occurred in the first place -- I
> guess a -2 RPMset is in order.

  Whatever that is. :-) What threw me is that this is a Red Hat
installation, and the compiler does some from a package. As I wrote, this is
quite strange. But, ... I'll just go install it now.

Thanks,

Rich

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