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Re: 9.2.3 for Linux: rpm update broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 8 23:14:23 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 08 May 2003 23:14:19 -0400
On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 17:11, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> It aborts immediately:
>
> astrophel.mit.edu# /etc/athena/update_ws
> Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. Needs to be fixed.
> Beginning update from 9.2.1 to 9.2.3 at Thu May 8 17:04:31 EDT 2003.
> rpmupdate: Failed to run transactions
Okay, there are two bugs here:
1. rpmupdate isn't smart enough to do anything special when there are
two versions of a package installed. So it decides there is nothing to
do.
2. The current rpmlib regards trying to run an empty transaction set
as a failure.
> Not sure- the screensaver kicked in and froze.
The xlogin screensaver, or the pretty-blinking-lights screensaver users
gets?
The automatic update really should have killed off the X server before
running, so there should have been no screensaver of any sort. I guess
that would be a third bug.
