Re: Red Carpet 0.9 beta

[Mike Messmore <mesmd rhodes edu>]

Rather than continuing this ongoing rant in my inbox, would you please
realize that a) you need to learn how RPM works and work with it to
convince it that you're machine is OK (at least to you) or b) don't
use Red Carpet.  If you just want a way to pick up rpms just go to
ximian's (or redhat's, or whomever's) ftp site and pull them from
there. Nobody's making you use this.

Here are some RPM links if you want to learn how it works so you can
fix your dependency problems:
RPM HOWTO		http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/index.html
Maximum RPM (the book)	http://www.rpmdp.org/rpmbook/
The Official RPM site	http://www.rpm.org/

Enjoy


On Fri Feb 23, 2001 at 11:23:33AM +1300, Renze de Ruiter wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:18:38 Ian Peters wrote:
> 
> > Letting RC be more lax about resolving dependencies unrelated to the
> > current transaction will help this problem, but beyond that's it's
> > really not something we can solve.
> 
> This will be a good first step... I'd rather not have RC break my system in
> order to solve what it thinks are dependency issues.
> 
> Also, I have never found any information on how to update the RPM database
> when installing software from tarball.  I've never needed to until now.
>