redhat-config-packages missing

[Suman Chakrabarti]

There's something I don't understand about Jann's post below. I may 
have been too simple

I was able to download the package and execute

rpm -ivh --nodeps redhat-config-packages


This didn't check for dependencies and did install the package, which 
failed to work because it didn't have required packages.

How does the "rpm command tell you which packages are missing"? There 
must be some other way of using "rpm" that isn't stated below?

		SC

>This is a repost of a message I posted:
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Missing redhat-config-packages package
>Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 01:59:03 +0200
>From: Jann R=F6der <jann.roeder@web.de>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>
>Hi, the package redhat-config-packages package is missing in on the
>yellowdog linux FTP server and on the CDs. However you can use the redhat
>package: That's how to do it:
>
>1. Download the the redhat package. It's noarch so that's no problem
>ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/current/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/redhat=
-config-packages-1.1.8-1.noarch.rpm
>
>2. Install the required packages: The rpm command will tell you which ones
>are missing on my system it was: libxml2-phyton and another one. It does
>also require rpm-phyton >=3D4.2-0.61 which is not yet available as a packag=
e
>for YDL at the moment. However it will work with the lower version which YD=
L
>provides.
>
>3. install the package: rpm -ivh --nodeps redhat-config-packages
>
>4. open the file /usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py in your
>favourite text editor and change line 713 to read: self.packagesDir =3D
>"YellowDog/RPMS"
>
>5. Type redhat-config-packages & to run the utility
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Jann
>
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