coreutils and util-linux

[Gene C.]

The latest updates for FC2-T1 (from development) for the coreutils and 
util-linux packages have problems.  These packages need to be installed 
together.  Because of the version-release of the util-linux package in the 
base being 2.12pre-3 and the update being 2.12-4, both up2date and rpm 
consider that the old package is newer.

To get around this, you need to manually download the updated 
util-linux-2.12-4 package (and the coreutils-5.2.0-8 package if you do not 
have it) and then use rpm -Uvh --force util... coreutils...
-- 
Gene

[Tim Waugh]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:19:02AM -0500, Gene C. wrote:

>  To get around this, you need to manually download the updated
>  util-linux-2.12-4 package (and the coreutils-5.2.0-8 package if you
>  do not have it) and then use rpm -Uvh --force util... coreutils... 
There is no reason to need '--force'.

Tim.
*/

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:57:43AM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:

>  On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:19:02AM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
>  
>  > To get around this, you need to manually download the updated
>  > util-linux-2.12-4 package (and the coreutils-5.2.0-8 package if you
>  > do not have it) and then use rpm -Uvh --force util... coreutils...
>  
>  There is no reason to need '--force'. 
Oh, didn't see the 'util...' in the command-line.  Well, you can use
'--oldpackage' for util-linux and the freshen coreutils as normal.

Tim.
*/

[Gene C.]

On Monday 01 March 2004 05:57, Tim Waugh wrote:
>  On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:19:02AM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
>  > To get around this, you need to manually download the updated
>  > util-linux-2.12-4 package (and the coreutils-5.2.0-8 package if you
>  > do not have it) and then use rpm -Uvh --force util... coreutils...
>
>  There is no reason to need '--force'. 

IIRC, I believe that I did need force.  I knew that I needed to install both 
the updated coreutils and updated unil-linux packages because /usr/bin/kill 
switched packages and redhat-lsb requires /usr/bin/kill.  Therefore I first 
tried rpm -Uvh util-linux-2.12-4.i386.rpm coreutils-5.2.0-8.is86.rpm but this 
did not work because rpm considered 2.12pre-3 to be "newer".  That is when I 
tried force.

I would need to do a fresh install to recreate the situation at this point but 
I will do that if necessary to prove this point.  I was quite annoyed by the 
2.12pre-3 situation since I had been had been trying for a couple days to get 
coreutils installed and up2date never "saw" the 2.12-4 util-linux package as 
being the newer package.  I first thought that it was only up2date but then 
came to realize that it was rpm also that considered the 2.12pre-3 package as 
newer.


-- 
Gene

[Tim Waugh]

FWIW, I use this script (run it in a directory of available RPMs) to
see which version-releases differ to what's installed.

#!/bin/bash
 
echo -e "Installed\\r\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tAvailable"
echo -e "---------\\r\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t---------"
for pkg in $(rpm -qa | sort)
do
  pkgname=$(echo $pkg | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)-[^-]\+-[^-]\+$/\1/')
  qpkgname=$(echo $pkgname | sed -e 's/+/\\+/g')
  file=$(ls -t1 ${pkgname}-*-*.*.rpm 2>/dev/null |
         grep "^${qpkgname}-[^-]\+-[^-]\+\.\(i386\|noarch\)" | head -n 1)
  file=${file%.*.rpm}
  [ -n "${file}" ] && [ "${pkg}" != "${file}" ]
&& \
    echo -e "${pkg}\\r\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t${file}"
done

Tim.
*/

Gene C. wrote:

> 2.12-4.i386.rpm        2.12pre-3 to be "newer".
>   
>  

2.12-4 < 2.12a-3 < 2.12p-3 < 2.12.pre-3  ??


lftp 
download.fedora.redhat.com:/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS> ls 
*pre*
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp       1110935 Feb 15 12:45 
busybox-1.00.pre5-3.src. rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp      12112644 Feb 19 10:18 
gimp-2.0-1.pre3.4.src.rp m
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp         58128 Feb 17 05:34 
ncompress-4.2.4-35.src.r pm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp        117731 Feb 13 22:33 
perl-Compress-Zlib-1.33- 1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp        363118 Feb 16 14:23 
prelink-0.3.0-21.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp       1961354 Feb 17 08:50 
wordtrans-1.1pre13-3.src .rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 ftp      ftp       1813548 Feb 17 08:52 
xcin-2.5.3.pre3-21.src.r



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shrek-m