On Fri Jun 15, 2001 at 09:35:36AM -0500, Ken Mausey wrote:
> I am trying to apply updates to mdk firewall 7.2, for sake of clarity, I
> will try to explain the problem as follows.....
>
> Updating using the web interface says that the package was updated, but
> continues to show up every time as not applied. So...
>
> At Mr. Command line....
>
> rpm -U ./vixie.... whatever.....
>
> Package vixie.... already installed
>
> rpm -q ./vixie.....
>
> Package vixie.... not installed
>
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> (This seems to go well)
>
> rpm -e vixie......
>
> Package vixie... not installed
>
> rpm -i ./vixie.... --force
>
> (This seems to go well)
>
> rpm -q vixie....
>
> Package vixie... not installed.
>
> (I think anything with 7.2 prepended to it just doesn't like me. ) ;-)
This doesn't help very much... I can only assume that you are trying
to do a query like
rpm -q vixie-cron-xx-xx.i586.rpm
This will *always* give you a false negative... rpm doesn't store the
extension in the database... ie. it doesn't store "i586.rpm" or
"i386.rpm" or "noarch.rpm". Whenever you query the database, do not
include that extension... I can only assume that is what you're doing.
> The vixie cron package seems to be the offending party here.
There is no vixie-cron update for SNF7.2. You don't have the final
version, so you need to change the updates directory from updates/7.2
to updates/snf7.2. I'm not sure how you can do this, but it's in the
naat-backend package somewhere... if you go to the cookfire mirrors
and update naat-backend, it should point it to the correct updates
directory.
> The web based update also likes to offer to downgrade packages. (ie..
> installable package is older than installed package)
>
> (Must be a *Feature* )
This is because it's pointing to the wrong directory.
> I can live with that.
>
> On another note....
>
> I have used openssl to generate and sign a security cert for the web
> interface, Netscape loves it, but Internet Exploder asks you if you want add
> it to your trusted sources, acts like it does, but never actually trusts it.
> I have downloaded their IE config program, ie-puke or whatever they call it,
> and it would seem that Mickeysoft will not let you trust a cert unless they
> say it is OK. Any workarounds known out there? Other than hoping for a
> change of wind direction here that would let me ban M$, I have exhausted my
> resources.
This I have no idea about.
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