Re: RPM

2009-01-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
Simon Wistow wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:13:06PM +0100, demerphq said: You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source. That's mostly but not strictly trues. AFAIK you can differentiate between files it installs and what it claims it supplies. By default they're

Re: RPM

2009-01-05 Thread Simon Wistow
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:13:06PM +0100, demerphq said: You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source. That's mostly but not strictly trues. AFAIK you can differentiate between files it installs and what it claims it supplies. By default they're the same but you can make

RPM

2008-12-30 Thread Peter da Silva
OK, I never really had to deal with RPM internals before, but it behaved like an oddball packaging format with some kind of binary header, so I assumed that's what it was... but no. It appears that the only supported way to build an RPM is by having an actual installer, RUNNING

Re: RPM

2008-12-30 Thread demerphq
2008/12/30 Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com: OK, I never really had to deal with RPM internals before, but it behaved like an oddball packaging format with some kind of binary header, so I assumed that's what it was... but no. It appears that the only supported way to build an RPM is by having

Re: RPM

2008-12-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:13 AM, demerphq wrote: You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source. And that if you want to say, upgrade a file in a package, you have to remove the old package first. Now this is just hateful behaviour, totally divorced from day to day reality

Re: RPM

2008-12-30 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
2008/12/30 Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com: And you can't even make it do the work in a custom directory without changing a magic dotfile in your home directory. So if you want to make an automated RPM build process that's running on a shared build server, you can't do it when anyone else

Re: RPM: Random Package Manglement

2007-03-07 Thread Aaron Crane
Denny writes: Installing... 1:mysql warning: /etc/my.cnf created as /etc/my.cnf.rpmnew ### [100%] 2:perl-DBD-MySQL ### [100%] The following packages were added to your selection to

Re: RPM: Random Package Manglement

2007-03-07 Thread imacat
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:32:22 + Denny de...@metamathics.org wrote: [r...@d01-olg ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i mysql MySQL-server-standard-5.0.21-1.rhel4 MySQL-client-standard-5.0.21-1.rhel4 MySQL-shared-standard-5.0.21-1.rhel4 [r...@d01-olg ~]# up2date perl-DBD-MySQL The following packages were

Re: RPM: Random Package Manglement

2007-03-07 Thread Denny
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 01:28 +0800, imacat wrote: Oh, sorry I made a mistake. Debian apt is obviously smarter in that it always pause, ask and wait for your answer if it needs to do something more than what you were ordering. In this case, it shall wait for your answer if it is going

Some fresh rpm hate

2006-03-15 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
And now, some hate for developers. Sorry in advance for our non-C-fluent readers. Somewhere in the rpm library headers, up to version 4.4.4, you have this nice typedef: typedef void * (*rpmCallbackFunction) (/*...@null@*/ const void * h, const rpmCallbackType what

Re: Some fresh rpm hate

2006-03-15 Thread Luke Kanies
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: And now, some hate for developers. Sorry in advance for our non-C-fluent readers. [...] I'm pretty sure that's a C hate, not an RPM hate. Yes, it's true, RPM does use C, so it's to blame, too, of course. -- The whole secret of life