Re: [Cooker] gcc and alternatives

[Sebastian Dransfeld]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Every update of gcc kills /var/lib/rpm/alternatives/gcc. So you do not
> have /usr/bin/gcc, just /usr/bin/gcc-2.96.

If you check 'rpm -q --scripts gcc', there is a line in postinstall:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 10

If you run it, gcc is back. Why it doesn't work when you run rpm -U gcc, I
don't know....

seb