Re: [Rpm-maint] Bug: rpm should set a fixed umask of 0022 before running pre-/post scripts

2008-05-28 Thread devzero2000
If you like an opinion as sysadmin, i agreed with Michael. I don't think it is rpm job to change what it is the default umask setting on the system or the sysadmin in particolar. If I want different, well, someone can always to define in the desidered way in the spec file for safety and portablity.

Re: [Rpm-maint] Bug: rpm should set a fixed umask of 0022 before running pre-/post scripts

2008-05-28 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Michael Schroeder wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:03:13PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: Rpm 4.4.2.3 and newer sets umask to 0022 on initialization, so it is already "fixed" upstream. Not that 0022 is a magic universally absolutely correct value for umask, it's just what m

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM GPG keys

2008-05-28 Thread aneeskA
see the problem i was faced was this:- i created keys. i signed the rpms with those keys. but when i try to install those rpms using 'yum localinstall' it failed asking for the key. now the next possible step would be to install the key. i had no idea where the key was. i tried checking inside the

Re: [Rpm-maint] Bug: rpm should set a fixed umask of 0022 before running pre-/post scripts

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:03:13PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Rpm 4.4.2.3 and newer sets umask to 0022 on initialization, so it is > already "fixed" upstream. Not that 0022 is a magic universally > absolutely correct value for umask, it's just what most things (scriptlets > notably) expect.

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM GPG keys

2008-05-28 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Wed, 28 May 2008, aneeskA wrote: HI Panu,     I tried that link before i sent the mail. This one is more useful and it had the answer to my question. http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html Erm, the fine gnupg manual tells you a lot of things but it does NOT tell you how to import a key

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM GPG keys

2008-05-28 Thread aneeskA
HI Panu, I tried that link before i sent the mail. This one is more useful and it had the answer to my question. http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html -- anees On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Panu Matilainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2008, aneeskA wrote: > > hi all, >

Re: [Rpm-maint] Bug: rpm should set a fixed umask of 0022 before running pre-/post scripts

2008-05-28 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Joerg Mayer wrote: Hello, I'm running opensuse-factory and have opened a bug there but was redirected to the upstream rpm for a fix (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390260). The problem: The postinstall scripts of some rpms create/replace files and while doing

[Rpm-maint] Bug: rpm should set a fixed umask of 0022 before running pre-/post scripts

2008-05-28 Thread Joerg Mayer
Hello, I'm running opensuse-factory and have opened a bug there but was redirected to the upstream rpm for a fix (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390260). The problem: The postinstall scripts of some rpms create/replace files and while doing so assume a root umask of 0022. This will

[Rpm-maint] install rpm on HP-UX11i

2008-05-28 Thread vasanthan
Hi Can you please tell me how to install rpm on HP-UX 11i Is there any installation guide Best Regards vasanth ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint

[Rpm-maint] install rpm on HP-UX11i

2008-05-28 Thread vasanthan
Hi Can you please tell me how to install rpm on HP-UX 11i Is there any installation guide Best Regards vasanth ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint

[Rpm-maint] install rpm on HP-UX11i

2008-05-28 Thread vasanthan
Hi Can you please tell me how to install rpm on HP-UX 11i Is there any installation guide Best Regards vasanth ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint

[Rpm-maint] install rpm on HP-UX11i

2008-05-28 Thread vasanthan
Hi Can you please tell me how to install rpm on HP-UX 11i Is there any installation guide Best Regards vasanth ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org https://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint

Re: [Rpm-maint] RPM GPG keys

2008-05-28 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Tue, 27 May 2008, aneeskA wrote: hi all,    i created a pair of RSA keys using 'gpg' and signed the rpms using this key. when i try to install the rpm on another or even in my machine using yum localinstall it says no key installed. i dont want to bypass the key check. how can i solve this p

Re: [Rpm-maint] Re: rpm --aid problem

2008-05-28 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Thu, 22 May 2008, Linda Walsh wrote: Florian Festi wrote: holmes86 wrote: Appear error message "Failed dependencies" When I install rpm package with --aid option under FC8. why? --- Hey holmes, I'd sorta like to know that too...:-) Don't do that. --aid is no longer supported (the dat

[Rpm-maint] how to restore original package after uninstalling the upgraded package using rpm

2008-05-28 Thread amit pansuria
I have following package installed rpm -qa |grep ADMIN It will give the following package installed: ADMIN-4.0.0.1 Now I will upgrade the ADMIN package using the following command. rpm --upgrade ADMIN-4.1.0.1 It will upgrade the ADMIN packagge to ADMIN-4.1.0.1 Now I want that w