devel packages

[James Olin Oden]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jason Dravet wrote:

> I just completed a custom install of FC3T3 and I ended up with 39 devel
> packages on my PC.  I then went to up2date the system and there are 226
> updates, 6 of which are devel updates.  One of the updates is rpm-devel
> (3.3MB).  Some of the others are: glibc-devel (2MB), libgcj-devel (6.7MB)
> and libstdc++-devel (8.7MB).  I went to command prompt and rpm -e rpm-devel
> and the package was erased.  There was no warning about a package being
> dependent on the rpm-devel package so why was it installed?  Do I really
> need the devel packages?  For those of us with dial up it would nice if FC
> did not any unnecessary devel packages.  
>
You don't have to have this installed, but at least back in RH 9 it 
contained some nice utilities like rpmdb_stat and friends, which can be 
usefull when diagnosing problems with rpm, but since rpm is bug free you 
should never need that (-;

Where I work we have some home grown upgrade scripts, and one of the 
things they do is check the state of the rpm database using rpmdb_stat to 
verify that there are no locks on the db.  No sense in starting an upgrade
that may fail because of a stale lock.

Cheers...james 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
> 

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