On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:13:14PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>The proximate causes of this failure were (1) incompetent
repository
>maintenance, making any nontrivial upgrade certain to founder on a
>failed dependency, and (2) the fact that rpm is not statically linked
>-- so it's possible to inadvertently remove a shared library it
>depends on and be unrecoverably screwed. But the underlying problems
>run much deeper.
We only have your analysis of the problem. Not a description of the
actual problem. That would be more helpful. Perhaps a bug report.
Yes, excellent advice. Eric, here's a document which may help you get better
answers rather than the storm of flames:
<
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>.
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