Re: getting user input in %post section

2000-10-07 Thread Matt Wilson
stdin is closed during script running. What if the user is using a GUI frontend to install the package like GnoRPM? Or if they are installing a package remotely via a management service? Matt On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 10:46:13PM -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm trying to get us

getting user input in %post section

2000-10-07 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi guys, I'm trying to get user input during installation of an rpm. I have a simple perl script which works fine by itself, but when run automatically during rpm installation, it simply doesnt stop for the user input... it just goes directly thru it. I just get user input using, $answer = ; w

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Matt Wilson
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:44:42PM -0500, Chris Abbey wrote: > Matt, in other words you do not expect 7.0 to be used for > production purposes, correct? No, I'm saying that the C side of the compiler is quite good, but the ABI for C++ is not. If you are developing proprietary software and you ar

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Mario Torre
Chris Abbey wrote: > Matt, in other words you do not expect 7.0 to be used for > production purposes, correct? > > For those that don't fully understand the impact of RedHat's > decision, please read the statement from the GCC Steering > Committee: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg3

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Chris Abbey
Matt, in other words you do not expect 7.0 to be used for production purposes, correct? For those that don't fully understand the impact of RedHat's decision, please read the statement from the GCC Steering Committee: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg3.html now the forces of openn

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Mario Torre
Matt Wilson wrote: > We are supporting the compiler we shipped in Red Hat Linux 7. If you > can add a bugzilla report with trimmed down test case of the code that > causes the error, we will do our best to get it fixed. > > Follow the instructions at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html but enter the >

Re: gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Matt Wilson
We are supporting the compiler we shipped in Red Hat Linux 7. If you can add a bugzilla report with trimmed down test case of the code that causes the error, we will do our best to get it fixed. Follow the instructions at http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html but enter the bug in bugzilla at http://bugzi

Re: IDE disk geometry

2000-10-07 Thread jfm2
> > Alex Sofronie wrote: > > geometry. Also, you must have the swap partition in the first 1024 cyls > > ENTIRELLY. On my system, RHLinux 62 reported something like < > could not...>> . > > I have several systems with the entire swap space well after cyl 1024 > and have had no problems. The aut

gcc-2.xx

2000-10-07 Thread Mario Torre
Hi, Many problem are been posted about the version of gcc include in the RedHat Linux 7.0, these problem are about some difficulty of compiling C++ code. Really, I don't know whene these errors occur, but it seems they make our code unportable. I wish to know if there are some problem if I try