On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:16:02 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <td22m.1717$8r....@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Tim Harig wrote: > >> On 2009-06-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> >> wrote: >>> Sounds more like broken OS with no integrated package management. >> >> Package managers with dependency tracking were all the rage when I >> first started using Linux. So I tried Red Hat and everything worked >> great until the depency database corrupted itself. > > I have been using and administering various flavours of Linux--Red Hat, > SuSE, Mandrake (before it was Mandriva), Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu--over > about the last decade, and I have NEVER seen this mythical dependency > database corruption of which you speak.
Really? I've seen it, or at least something that looks like it if you squint. In my experience, it can usually be fixed by: yum clean all on recent Redhat based systems. Worst case, there may be a lockfile that needs deleting as well. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
