Re: getting Up2date to work (was Up2Date / RPM error

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On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 17:08:47 +0100, tom wrote:

> > >   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 9, in ?
> > >     import rpm
> > > ImportError: /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.1.so: undefined symbol:
> > > gelf_getehdr
> >
> > The "libelf" package is not up-to-date.
> 
> Well I'm not sure how you reached this conclusion but you are quite
> correct; installing this package brings up2date back2life.
> 
> However I wonder how I could have reached the point where this binary
> was omitted since its dependency should have been spotted by both
> up2date and rpm and it is not listed in rpm -q --requires up2date.

As you write yourself, it _should have been spotted_. However, if
the dependencies are not strict enough and due to the Beta status
Red Hat expects several components to be upgraded _at once_, you can
break the dependency chain by upgrading packages individually.

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