Re: (no subject)

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:03:10PM -0400, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2003, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 01:49:31PM -0600, Curtis Lehman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 	I have been trying to load the latest RPM modules for hotplug
> > > but I have run into a problem with the rpm manager. It won't seem to
> > > install the latest hotplug rpm packages. I think it has something to
> > > do with the fact that they have been broken out to two packages. I am
> > > running on Redhat 9.0. I have tried searching through the hotplug
> > > developers mailing list, but know one seems to have had this problem
> > > before.  I am not real strong in the RPM usage department, so I would
> > > appreciate any suggestions on how to get the package installed. I was
> > > afraid to force the removal of the old package given the dependencies.
> > > Below is an output of what I have tried.
> > 
> > Try loading both of them at the same time:
> > 	rpm -Uhv hotplug-2003_05_01-1.noarch.rpm hotplug-base-2003_05_01-1.noarch.rpm
> > 
> > It does seem that -2003_05_01-1 is detected as an "older" package.  I
> > thought I would not have this problem with the way I named the versions,
> > but I guess not.  Anyone have any ideas about that?
> 
> It doesn't look like that to me. It just looks like a dependancy problem
> where you need to specify both packages on the same command line like
> you suggested.
> 
> None of the error messages suggest that rpm thinks the 2003_05_01
> package is older.

No, that's not shown in these messages, I saw it when I installed the
packages on one of my boxes.  Hm, the rpm version of apt keeps wanting
to install the old version of hotplug too, I'll look into this...

thanks,

greg k-h


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