[OpenAFS] Redhat 7.1 rpm circular dependencies

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery@ece.cmu.edu
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:15:01 -0400


On Wednesday, July 18, 2001 11:12:24 -0700, Jeremy Stribling 
<jstribl@us.ibm.com> wrote:
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| I may be overlooking somethign obvious here, but I tried to install the
| Rdhat 7.1 rpms for OpenAFS 1.1.0 today, and it seems to me there's some
| circular dependencies between the packages.  The openafs-kernel package
| requires openafs = 1.1.0, and the openafs package requires the
| openaafs-kernel package!  As such, I can't install either one.  Any
| suggestions?  Thanks,
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Undoubtedly deliberate, and the correct way to install them is to install 
both in the same rpm command line.  rpm will notice that the packages 
satisfy each others' dependencies and will allow the install.

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