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                                More DreadRat

One of my tasks in my new job [1] was to figure out why up2date stopped
working. I was told it had an “SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) problem” that
needed fixing.

I figured that an updated SSL library upgrade borked up2date but it turned
out to be a much simpler problem: their certificate expired. Back in August.

Still didn't fix the RPM (RedHat Package Manager) problems [2] I was having.
I did, however, find that rpm -i --nodeps foo.rpm worked when rpm -i --force
foo.rpm failed. I personally would have thought that “forcing” the install
would work, but aparently not. You have to tell rpm to ignore the
dependancies.

Sigh.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/11/24.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/11/26.1

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