Re: RPM: Random Package Manglement

> [root@d01-olg ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql

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On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:32:22 +0000
Denny <denny@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> [root@d01-olg ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql
> MySQL-server-standard-5.0.21-1.rhel4
> MySQL-client-standard-5.0.21-1.rhel4
> MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.21-1.rhel4
> [root@d01-olg ~]# up2date perl-DBD-MySQL
> The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
> mysql                                   4.1.20         1.RHEL4.1

    Well, up2date does not recognize the foreign RPM you downloaded from
the MySQL AB website.  It only knows the so called "legal" RPMs from the
RPM repository server of your distribution.  So, it has not idea that
the installing "lower-cased" "mysql" 4.1 conflicts with the existing
"MySQL" 5.0.

    I'm not using RPM, but Debian apt.  I do not install foreign apt
packages except for those came from the Debian repository servers, for
the same reason.  I do not want to confuse apt with something not within
its knowledge.

    Computers are stupid.  Be sympathetic, and  do not do things too
complicated to confuse them.

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