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Re: Athena RPM problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Nov 6 19:34:07 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 06 Nov 1998 19:33:42 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Fri, 6 Nov 1998 19:06:30 -0500"
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> athena-attach:
> touches /var/athena/attachtab without making sure that
> /var/athena exists. If it has a dependency on
> athena-filesystem, that isn't doing the job; I just did an rpm
> -i afs-* athena-* in the appropriate 5.1 directory and got an
> error.
RPM assumes that if X depends on Y and you ask it to install both at
the same time, the order doesn't matter. The installer, however,
knows that it needs to install athena-filesystem early, so this isn't
a problem (though it does mean we should fix the instructions for
manually installing Athena packages.)
The other issues you raise are real, but most should be easy to fix.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
