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Re: color ls broken after 4.0 upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ralph muha)
Sun Oct 27 22:29:45 1996
In-Reply-To: <19961028025515.1053.qmail@quark.stanford.edu>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 22:28:05 -0500
To: iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU
From: ralph muha <rmuha@minimal.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
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At 9:55 PM -0500 10/27/96, Ian Burrell wrote:
>It changed between 3.0.3 and 4.0 because color-ls was integrated into
>the standard GNU fileutils. It is best documented in the fileutils
okay, but the old version of dircolors set up the proper aliasing
while the new version doesn't; eval `dircolors` is no longer sufficient
to set up color-ls properly...
>BTW, you should probably remove the color-ls package. A general
>comment on RedHat, I have noticed there are quite a few obsolete
>packages left after upgrading. Since there is no way the update can
>remove them automatically, making a list of what packages were
>replaced or integrated with something else would really help in later
>cleanup.
so why can't rpm remove obsolete packages? as long the package is the
same one that was installed by the previous release, it should be removed
automatically.
As long as we're on the subject of rpm and upgrades, I do have one major
complaint about the 4.0 upgrade process. I really didn't intend to run
the upgrade when I did, I was just going thru the motions to see how the
upgrade procedure worked, I intended to stop just short of the actual
installation. After I got thru the section where you customize the
installation list, I was confronted with what I thought was simply
an informational dialog telling me about the installation log that
would be created. There was a single button labeled 'okay', I clicked
it and to my surprise, the installer began running, full tilt.
I debated whether to hit reset and risk a damaged file system, finally
decided, what the hell, I've had good luck with redhat in the past, so
I let the upgrade complete. I had to do quite a bit a cleanup later,
since I hadn't really customized the package list the way I wanted.
But that dialog was very misleading. There was no indication
that anything was going to happen. At the very least, the
button should have been labeled 'install'. A 'cancel' button
would have been nice, too, but one can always hit reset...
r
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