Re: rpm dependencies unsolvable

[Quentin Spencer]

Mukesh wrote:

> ya, this soln ("rpm --nodeps") is working.. thanx a lot for that :)..
> but is this the right way of installing the tool..
> will it create some problem later..
> bcaz dependency will be always there..
> i really doubt.. sorry if i sound stupid..


Yes, the solution I proposed is ugly, and does leave a small possibility 
for future problems. The most obvious problem is if a system update 
changes /etc/ld.so.conf (I don't know how likely that is), in which case 
you would need to re-edit the file. On the other hand, given the number 
of packages you were installing, it seemed the easiest solution in the 
short term.

If you want to keep up to date with Octave releases in the long term, 
someone will need to maintain Octave and related packages specifically 
for your distribution. You might want to complain to Red Hat about their 
poor support of Octave and the fact that the non-paying customers 
(Fedora users) get a better version of Octave. Assuming this does not 
have any positive results, if a third party (yourself or someone else) 
wanted to maintain the set of packages, this will probably require 
developing an octave SRPM that is specific to RHEL and different from 
the Fedora one. With that completed, the Fedora SRPMs for fftw3, cln, 
ginac, octave-forge will probably rebuild on your distribution without 
any difficulties.

-Quentin



-------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.octave.org
How to fund new projects:  http://www.octave.org/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.octave.org/archive.html
-------------------------------------------------------------