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Re: Re[2]: bad option 'cpiobin' at /usr/lib/rpmrc:5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Mon Nov 11 10:30:52 1996
To: ray@fred.net
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Nov 1996 20:48:16 EST."
<199611110148.UAA02393@picard.comsat.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:28:58 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> Wierdl Mate writes:
> > > W.D.McKinney writes:
> > > > Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu> wrote:
> > > > > > When I go to bring up
> > > > > > control-panel now I see the following error:
> > > > > > bad option 'cpiobin' at /usr/lib/rpmrc:5
> > > > >
> > > > > Are you sure about control-panel? I get this error when I start glint.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Looks like your /usr/lib/rpmrc is messed up at line 5, this is what
> > > mine looks like. Are you sure you have /bin/cpio ?
> > >
> > > cpiobin: /bin/cpio
> >
> > I have never touched this stuff; the error appeared after upgrading
> > rpm to the one in the updates directory.
> >
> > $ less /usr/lib/rpmrc |grep cpio
> > cpiobin: /bin/cpio
> > $ l /bin/cpio
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 292160 Aug 27 09:17 /bin/cpio*
>
> Don't know then that's exactly like mine:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 292160 Aug 27 10:17 /bin/cpio
>
> Sorry, must be something else. Is there something else on or around
> line five that looks wrong ? Here's mine:
What is your rpm version?
$ rpm -qf /bin/rpm
rpm-2.2.7-1
$ l /usr/lib/rpmrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2521 Oct 15 15:56 /usr/lib/rpmrc
$ diff -c /usr/lib/rpmrc rpmrc1
(So no output for diff; yours is rpmrc1)
Mate
M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
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