Odin,
The guy is right. There is problem with rpminst when --skip-intro option is there. The
rpminst core dump hard. I run rpminst with
and without the --skip-intro and the rpminst coredump every time with it.
Andrew Bielecki
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake does nothing - so I fixed it, here's how
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:14:02PM -0400, Jason Straight wrote:
> 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.
>
I've seen no difference with or without the skip-intro flags.
Nevertheless I think I have found the problem, so you can expect a fix
soon.
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