Its incorrect to say that we don't report anything, its right in your original note, its true that it is an RPM error, but the error is reported to the user. Its also true that there is a lot of output from SIS, but that is because it is being called with the --verbose option to provide the most data about any failures and also is used to update the progress bar. This output is far from useless when there is a problem. If you have any further constructive suggestions, I'd be happy to see them here.
Mike On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 17:38, Jason B. wrote: > No... we don't report anything... it's rpm that errors out. SIS just > compounds everything by outputting another 50 useless lines of output. If > users only saw "packageblah is needed by otherpackagefoo" then it would be > much easier... > > Jason > > At 05:25 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, Michael Chase-Salerno wrote: > >We could do some checking, but unless we're going to automatically > >install stuff, I don't think it will make too much of a difference. > >We're already reporting that there are prereqs missing, all we would be > >doing is making the message a little nicer. Not sure that's worth the > >effort. > > > >Mike > > > >On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:50, Jason B. wrote: > > > Since I normally don't do much Mandrake testing, I assume I'm installing > > > the OS differently than those who do more with it (like the folks at > > > Sherbrooke). I installed it as I do a RedHat system, which means the > > > standard options, plus Software Development tools. In doing so, there > > were > > > a number of RPMs that weren't installed. Here's the list: > > > > > > lynx > > > libmm1 > > > nfs-utils-clients > > > perl-CGI > > > expat > > > libexpat1_95-devel > > > > > > Since these packages are required before the prereq portion of the > > install, > > > shouldn't we be checking some of these to make sure the install goes > > > well? There seems to be numerous e-mails to the list saying "I got an > > > error like lynx >= 2.8.5 is needed by ...". I know this is in the FAQ > > > (IIRC), but we could do some checking... yes? > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > > > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > > > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > > > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Oscar-devel mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > >-- > >Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >IBM Linux Systems Technology Poughkeepsie, NY > >System Installation Suite www.sisuite.org > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > >Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > >Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > >www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > >_______________________________________________ > >Oscar-devel mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! > Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. > Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. > www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel -- Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Systems Technology Poughkeepsie, NY System Installation Suite www.sisuite.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
