On Wednesday 11 July 2001 14:59, you wrote:
> Fresh install today from up to date sunet.se rpmdrake worked for a while,
> but now when I try to install stuff it dies right about the point where it
> would start to download.
>
> Any ideas?
I checked each of the components of the package and found rpminst to be the
problem. So I checked to see how rpmdrake was calling rpminst,
rpminst --skip-intro --report /tmp/rpminst.log --packages pine
Tried it on the command line and it didn't work
rpminst --packages pine
did though
it didn't like --skipintro so I eliminated it by writing a quick shell hack
which shifts --skipintro out of the list of args. - very dirty hack but it
makes rpmdrake work again.
mv /usr/sbin/rpminst /usr/sbin/rpminst.bak
create the following as /usr/sbin/rpminst and chmod +x it
#!/bin/sh
shift
/usr/sbin/rpminst.bak "$@"
It'll remove the --skipintro arg as rpmdrake calls rpminst before passing the
command line to rpminst.bak - problem fixed - although rather dirty.
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Jason Straight
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