[95620] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gdoris@shaw.wave.ca)
Mon Oct 19 21:43:22 1998
From: gdoris@shaw.wave.ca
In-Reply-To: <362B812B.A99BBC26@iname.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:43:03 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: gdoris@shaw.wave.ca
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Cc: TIM SOFTWARE <timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Well, even the updated glint has a problem...at least on my system. I did the
update yesterday and found that glint wouldn't work anymore. The file rpmrc
wasn't in the correct directory.
It was in a subdirectory of the one that was being searched. This was easily
fixed by just doing a link.
Gerry
On 19-Oct-98 Jan Carlson wrote:
> TIM SOFTWARE wrote:
>
>> Dear RedHats!
>> I installed RH5.1 on 3 PCs. And on every computer a got a strange bug!
>> If i use X window|Control Panel|Package Management|Available
>> it scans the rpms in the configuired directory and when scans 70% it stops
>> once and forever!
>
> You are using "glint". It has bugs, which are mostly fixed in updated
> "glint" and "rpm"
> packages. Even then, a bug remains: glint freezes if the 'configured'
> directory has
> a subdirectory.
>
> 1. Get the new rpms for glint and rpm - and read www.redhat.com/errata about
> rpm in in particular - and do what it says.
>
> 2. Make sure the directory you "CONFIGURE" for available packages
> does NOT HAVE SUBDIRECTORIES. If necessary, copy things to another
> place and have no subdirectories there. Set the "CONFIGURE" directory to
> that new place.
>
> Then it will work fine!
>
>>
>> Tim King
>>
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> Jan Carlson
> janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Date: 19-Oct-98
Time: 21:40:47
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