[102476] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Possible Problem with MC (redhat 5.2)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Pickering)
Thu Dec 3 10:06:37 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:51:43 +0100
From: Tim Pickering <tim@astro.rug.nl>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <E0zlZvu-0001Av-00@post.mail.demon.net>; from Vince Negri on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 02:40:00PM +0000
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> A couple of people have posted to the list saying that MC in 5.2 can't
> look inside RPM files as it used to. (You can see the package description and
> scripts, but not the actual files)
>
> I have observed this too, on a completely virgin 5.2 install.
>
> Does anyone have information on this?
yeah, there's a bug in the file that tells mc how to list the contents
of an rpm file. it's a one line patch to fix it (it's just a malformed
sed command), but unfortunately i'm stuck at work without either of my
linux boxes. i'll post the patch tonight when i get home.
tim
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