problems with up2date

[Justin Georgeson]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:20, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> 
>>I have a fully updated system, using up2date with the rawhide yum repo 
>>on ftp.redhat.com. I've been trying to build wine, first the 20030911 
>>source RPM from the winehq.com site. That fails because dockbook-utils 
>>doesn't have docbook2pdf, so the configure script ends up literally 
>>running `false` to generate the PDF docs. I tried aliasing docbook2pdf 
>>to true, which worked until it tried to package things and couldn't find 
>>half the docs. So I poked around and found a src RPM in the stable 
>>section of fedora.us for RH 9. So I downloaded that and trying to build 
>>it said I needed a bunch of -devel RPMs, one of them being 
>>openssl-devel. So I tried `up2date openssl-devel`. And it just hangs at 
>>"Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...". I've tried it 
>>several times over the past few days. Running `up2date -uv` works just 
>>fine though. I've never used yum by itself, is it not designed for just 
>>grabbing one package + dependencies?
>>
>>Has anyone been able to get a wine RPM build on FC?
> 
> 
> I'm not a Wine guy, but the initial problem sounds like you don't have
> the docbook-utils-pdf RPM installed from your distribution. Try
> installing that and then addressing the next problem. HTH.

heh, I just assumed that since docbook2html and docbook2ps were in 
docbook-utils, the pdf one would go in there too. Silly me.

anyone have any comment on not being able to run `up2date <package>`? 
Does yum not do single package installs?