From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: RPMs for latest release Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <46B38125.9060805@centurytel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: rdavid274 X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 23:36:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IH4oq-0007L2-52 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:36:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763021AbXHCVgU (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762453AbXHCVgU (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:36:20 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49794 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762834AbXHCVgT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:36:19 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l73LaE7D029969 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:36:15 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l73La9Mt028928; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:36:09 -0700 In-Reply-To: <46B38125.9060805@centurytel.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.715 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.20__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.184 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, rdavid274 wrote: > > Downloaded the 10 rpms necessary for a complete install however, there is NO > single rpm that is independent of the other rpms. > > Every rpm that I have downloaded depends on at 1 other rpm to have been > already installed. > > So, how does a newbie deal with this issue? You should be able to do rpm -Uvh and be all good. In other words, if you have dependencies, you need to resolve all the dependencies in one go by listing the packages together. Of course, you could also just force rpm to ignore dependencies (the "--nodeps" flag, iirc), but that's usually a bad idea - it just means that you will be all the more likely to have a non-working setup because you forgot some package or other, and since you told rpm to ignore it, it won't tell you. That said, most rpm distros tend to make things much easier for you by letting you just run "yum", which will do all of this for you, and then you can generally just do yum install git and it will download all packages and install them by dependencies. Linus