Ah crap, that s*ks. Can you take the tarfile and build it manually? A pain, but it may work, meanwhile you can let RH know how much they blew it...
Of course it may be that they relied on a 3rd party to create the rpm and they just included it in their distro (they still should have tested it though). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Ya, its not every SRPM that does that just some of them, and they're all >directly from RH-7.3. > >Susan Macchia wrote: >> Lonni, >> >> You may have already done this, but I would try building another src.rpm to >> determine if the problem is with the rpm file (which I suspect), or with rpm >> itself. Then, if the problem is the rpm file, whereever you got the src.rpm >> (redhat?) is who should fix the problem. I bet its with the scripts >> that are used to build the source from the rpm or some such. >> >> Good luck and HTH >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>That could very well be the problem. If so, its RedHat's fault, as all >>>i've been doing is "rpm --rebuild <file.src.rpm>" and then attempting to >>>install the resulting RPM. >>> >>>Susan Macchia wrote: >>> >>>>Lonni, >>>> >>>>I've been writing a lot of k-shell scripts lately; to execute and assign the >>>>value of an external "program", you would say, for example: >>>> >>>>foo=$(cat foobar) >>>> >>>>Which is why I am replying... >>>> >>>>the LIST=$(... looks like this - could be some kind of syntax error >>> >>>somewhere >>> >>>>or something. Just thought I'd throw this out as symptomatic of some >>>>script problem? >>>> >>>>Don't know if this helps but... >>>> >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>I'm in the process of rebuilding the RH-7.3 SRPMs, and then installing >>>>>them. I'm starting to see some very very weird stuff, for failed >>>>>dependencies: >>>>> >>>>>CXXFLAGS is needed by libsigc++-devel-1.0.3-5 >>>>>LIST=$(shell is needed by libsigc++-devel-1.0.3-5 >>>>> >>>>>No, neither is a typo , that's exactly how they appeared. I'm using the >>>>>exact same version of rpm that i've had for a few weeks (prior to the >>>>>manual upgrade i'm doing). ===== _____________________________ Susan Macchia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ - Running Linux - because life is too short for reboots... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
