[100743] in RedHat Linux List
Re: GLINT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Canary)
Mon Nov 23 07:48:54 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 06:49:24 -0600
From: Robert Canary <rwcanary@ohiocounty.net>
Reply-To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net
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Hi,
MidnightCommander is a better glint than glint.
--
robert
Jan Carlson wrote:
>
> Maltan Josef wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > i know this was discussed earlier on but i got stuck on it
> > yesterday night.
> > Why does glint stop after reading in about 85% of the available
> > packages ?
>
> Glint used to choke when there are subdirectories and other
>
> non-rpm items in the directory. There is an
>
> update for glint in RH5.1 which fixes other problems.
>
> I don't use glint any longer. rpm itself gives
>
> plenty of control, and you don't have to hunt up
>
> and down all those silly levels of packages
>
> looking for something you know is is there.
>
> With glint it takes too long to highlight everything
>
> so you can upgrade. I like rpm -Uvh *.rpm much better.
>
> --
>
> Jan Carlson
> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
> Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
>
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