On Monday 01 March 2004 05:57, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:19:02AM -0500, Gene C. wrote:
To get around this, you need to manually download the updated util-linux-2.12-4 package (and the coreutils-5.2.0-8 package if you do not have it) and then use rpm -Uvh --force util... coreutils...
There is no reason to need '--force'.
IIRC, I believe that I did need force. I knew that I needed to install both the updated coreutils and updated unil-linux packages because /usr/bin/kill switched packages and redhat-lsb requires /usr/bin/kill. Therefore I first tried rpm -Uvh util-linux-2.12-4.i386.rpm coreutils-5.2.0-8.is86.rpm but this did not work because rpm considered 2.12pre-3 to be "newer". That is when I tried force.
I would need to do a fresh install to recreate the situation at this point but I will do that if necessary to prove this point. I was quite annoyed by the 2.12pre-3 situation since I had been had been trying for a couple days to get coreutils installed and up2date never "saw" the 2.12-4 util-linux package as being the newer package. I first thought that it was only up2date but then came to realize that it was rpm also that considered the 2.12pre-3 package as newer.