[ale] Rpm Heaven.

[Fulton Green]

I've been tracking, to some extent, the updated RPMs in RH's Raw Hide
directory:
  ftp://FTP.RedHat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/

A few "gotcha"s:
- The latest RPM may spit out some ID key warnings when upgrading other
  packages
- whenever you upgrade RPM itself, ALWAYS follow with an "rpm --rebuilddb"
- updating any KDE 3.x.x-related package usually means updating ALL of them
- GNOME is now at version 2.0 (this is also the case for the recent beta),
  so that will wind up being a big upgrade as well
- You may have to manually run the new gnome-panel from a terminal window
- net-snmp replaces ucd-snmp
- httpd replaces apache (httpd is acually Apache HTTPD v. 2.x)
- GCC 3.1 is now the default gcc package (gcc 2.96 is now a "compat-" pkg.)

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:42:20PM -0400, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> Ok. I have an idea, Doh! After hours and hours of trying to get DVD to play on 
> 7.3, and resolving all the other problems that I ran into - and seeing 
> Aaron's 7.2 box rockin' I decided to go back to 7.2.
> 
> What I want to do is throw all the rpms I can find into /etc/rpm and run a 
> command like rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> 
> So far, I have put all the RPMS off of the 7.3 CD in the directory, does 
> anyone know where I can download like a hundred of the latest and greatest 
> RPMs to try to upgrade to? 
> 
> Will this work (rpm check for dependencies and install stuff that will work 
> out okay?

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