Re: Updating the BDI2.04

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Jack

When I first built the RPMs for the BDI-2.04, I used a quick and dirty 
method. As my understanding of rpm grew, I cleaned up and improved the build.
In the process, I have inadvertently broken some of the dependencies from the 
original CD. The packages will still install on a 2.04, but you will need to 
use the -force flag

rpm --upgrade --nodeps --force emc-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm
or
rpm -Uh --nodeps --force emc-rtl3_0-2_10_i586.rpm

These two command options would be preferable to using the -i flag which is 
used for installing a package. -U is for upgrading a previously installed 
package.

When you do an upgrade, rpm should treat the .ini files as configs and not 
overwrite them. Doing an install, any existing configs would be backed up 
before the new ones are installed.

Although I have been playing with linux for three years now, I still find 
many things daunting. 


Regards, Paul.

On Friday 11 January 2002 1:42 am, Jack Ensor wrote:
> I have run through various agonies in trying to get updated.  As
> usual if something is amiss when you are doing something new it leads
> to confusion.

> Is this a normal response?  These error messages are very
> intimidating to a newbie.

> Going on I look in the emc directory at some of the files there and
> apparently the old files are still there with a .bak appended to
> them.  And the new files are in there with today's date on them
> taking the place of the old files.  Now should I, in the interest of
> keeping a clean and uncluttered house remove the .bak files?