Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To support my claim that the 7.2 installer (today from
> sunsite.uio.no) is not ready for confident use, the attachment is the
> install.log from a customized - install - development en-GB install
> from the same download. It has been reduced to 13.7 KB by
> elimination of all the successful install lines, each block of such
> being indicated by a blank line.
>
> There are numerous quite unacceptable errors reported.
i don't see a lot of "unacceptable" errors! the worse is apache, but others are
ok, and most of them were already in 7.1
[...]
> Ron. [AU]kernel-2.2.17-21mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en",
> LC_ALL = "en_GB",
> LANG = "en"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
no pb. If someone really want this to disappear, i'll grep it out of the log ;p
[...]
> gnome-print-0.20-5mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> Unable to bind port 16001
weird
[...]
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.1-26mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xset: unable to open display ":0"
> execution of XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.1-26mdk script failed, exit status 1
> fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-7mdk.noarch.rpm Installation CD
> xfs: no process killed
> xtt: no process killed
> xfsft: no process killed
> xset: unable to open display ":0"
> execution of fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-7mdk script failed, exit status 1
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.1-26mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xset: unable to open display ":0"
> execution of XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.1-26mdk script failed, exit status 1
> fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-7mdk.noarch.rpm Installation CD
> xfs: no process killed
> xtt: no process killed
> xfsft: no process killed
> xset: unable to open display ":0"
> execution of fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-7mdk script failed, exit status 1
has been that way for a long time. It needs fixing for cleanness/clearness, but
no big deal though.
[...]
> apache-common-1.3.12-30mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
[...]
> user apache does not exist - using root
> group apache does not exist - using root
> chown: apache.apache: invalid user
*this* one is bad, for sure :-/
[...]
> umb-scheme-3.2-14mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/info/umb-scheme.info.bz2
> execution of umb-scheme-3.2-14mdk script failed, exit status 1
> ed-0.2-21mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/ed.info.bz2'
> bc-1.05a-12mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> grep: /usr/info/dir: No such file or directory
> install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/dc.info.bz2'
> mgetty-1.1.22-2mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> install-info: No such file or directory for /usr/info/mgetty.info.bz2
> execution of mgetty-1.1.22-2mdk script failed, exit status 1
all these need fixing, otherwise the info page can be removed...
i think i've already warned the maintainers of these, if someone can fill
bugzilla with these, it would be nice :)
> postfix-19991231_pl08-5mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> postalias: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces
?? don't know
> drakfont-0.52-9mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> drakfont: error in loading shared libraries: libXi.so.6: cannot open shared object
>file: No such file or directory
dam's? can you remove drakfont DURING_INSTALL?
[...]
> HTML-Embperl-1.3b4-30mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> ln: cannot create symbolic link `/var/www/perl/HTML-Embperl' to
>`/usr/share/doc/HTML-Embperl-1.3b4': No such file or directory
> chown: /var/www/perl/HTML-Embperl: No such file or directory
> execution of HTML-Embperl-1.3b4-30mdk script failed, exit status 1
beurk
> BasiliskII-sheepnet-0.8-14mdk.i586.rpm Installation CD
> depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.2.17-BOOT9/modules.dep for writing
> execution of BasiliskII-sheepnet-0.8-14mdk script failed, exit status 255
been that way for a long time too. I'm in favor of removing this package...
