[PLUG] Package upgrades

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Apr 12 15:29:22 UTC 2002


On Thursday 11 April 2002 07:19 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   OK. I made the soft links from /usr/local/lib to /usr/lib/ and
> everything's built and installed just fine. Until I get to sendmail itself.
> When I try to freshen the existing installation, I see:
>
> [root at salmo rshepard]# rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/sendmail-*
> error: failed dependencies:
>         /usr/sbin/alternatives   is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-15
>         chkconfig >= 1.3 is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-15
>         bash >= 2.0 is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-15
>
>   I've no idea what /usr/sbin/alternatives is or where to find it. I
> suppose that I can upgrade chkconfig easily enough, but ... can I install
> bash-2.0 in addition to my existing bash-1.14.7-23.6x? Or, will anything
> break if I upgrade from 1.14 to 2.0? As bash is so fundamental to the
> system I need to understand what I'm doing before doing it. If there are
> pointers to docs for me to read, please pass me a pointer to them.

/usr/sbin/alternatives is from the chkconfig package.

I have not had anything break upgrading from Bash 1.x to 2.x, but anything 
truely messy I tend to write in Perl, not Bash.





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