I'm having an issue with scriptlets failing randomly. I'm running rpm 4.0.4 on Tru64 4.0F. the error looks like this Preparing......
Brian Harvell
harvell@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:03 pm
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Hi, I have a rather simple question. Consider a case where you have a directory containing the packages x-1.rpm, y-2.rpm, and z-1.rpm. x-1.rpm is already ...
Rolf Dubitzky
dubitzky@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:07 pm
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... I'd say rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm KBK _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Kurt B. Kaiser
kbk@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:32 pm
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... FWIW, there's a db-4.1.24 package out there too. rpm has it an internal copy of db4-4.0.14 so it doesn't *need* db4 packages upgraded. OTOH, the...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Oct 1, 2002 1:51 pm
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Hi Kurt, hmm, not quite what I want, --replacepkgs will install packages that are already installed. This does not scale well for many packages where just a ...
Rolf Dubitzky
dubitzky@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:32 pm
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... I see what you mean. It's too bad that the -U exits, I can't see the reason for that. Maybe a feature request for the rpm guys? Hm, your KMail...
Kurt B. Kaiser
kbk@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:49 pm
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... It fails when /usr is mounted read-only. See also ... Enrico _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@... ...
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:39 pm
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Hi, ok. autorpm is my friend. It seems that it is actively maintained again. Cheers, Rolf _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list...
Rolf Dubitzky
dubitzky@...
Oct 1, 2002 5:49 pm
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... Yes it is... and when I get around to it, I have a few more nice features up my sleeve ;) -- Kirk Bauer -- CmpE, Georgia Tech -- kirk@... -- Avid...
Kirk Bauer
kirk@...
Oct 1, 2002 6:19 pm
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Hi Jeff, thanks for the insight. ... I'll try and investigate it some more, see below for one additional question. ... Is there any reason why rpm doesn't do...
Thomas Vander Stichele
thomas@...
Oct 1, 2002 7:34 pm
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... It's easier to avoid the disease than attempt the cure, if you catch my drift. ... Yes. See the posting on rpm-list (from early August?) for (my) analysis....
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Oct 1, 2002 8:57 pm
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Is there anything out there that can compare two RPMs or spec files ? What I'm chiefly interested in is what %files entries exist in one and not in another, or...
Andre Majorel
amajorel@...
Oct 1, 2002 9:00 pm
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... Course all you need is a little glue code that walks through each RPM to be installed, and checks to see if it is not already installed. If its not, it...
Hi Jeff, thks for replying. sorry to insist on this matter, but your answer originated some additional questions: [1] would upgrading to db4 break any existing...
Andre Costa
brblueser@...
Oct 1, 2002 10:30 pm
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... Heh, the easy stuff is already answered somewhere else. :-) ... Now _that_'s what I needed. It even was in the doc but I was to dumb to notice. Thanks for...
Andre Majorel
amajorel@...
Oct 1, 2002 10:36 pm
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... There's some API changes in db-4.0.14, but there are compat packages for the db3 libraries if you need them. The trickiest part is building, specifically...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Oct 1, 2002 11:03 pm
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Hi Guys, Just a quick follow up on my problems .. Does anyone know if rpm is statically linked? (as in the binary version normally distributed with redhat 7.x)...
David Stuart
dstuartspam@...
Oct 2, 2002 2:39 am
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... See for yourself: [root@couch bin]# ldd `which rpm` not a dynamic executable [root@couch bin]# _______________________________________________ Rpm-list...
R P Herrold
herrold@...
Oct 2, 2002 2:46 am
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... The /bin/rpm binary is. However, a lot of the work is done by binaries like rpmbuild and rpmdb, which are dynamically linked. Cheers, Malcolm ...
Malcolm Tredinnick
malcolm@...
Oct 2, 2002 3:09 am
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(I'm looking at the source code) .. Does that include the source code under the "build" directory? For instance, I'm looking at the checkOwners method in...
David Stuart
dstuartspam@...
Oct 2, 2002 3:20 am
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... "Should not be called" is a solution???? Sheesh ... If you think you're getting a failure becuae of API lossage caused by trying to use a binary compiled...
Jeff Johnson
jbj@...
Oct 2, 2002 1:22 pm
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Is there some place where the behaviour of rpm(1) when installing files with the %config tag is described in detail ? doc/manual/spec compares...
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