[3451] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: outstanding bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Apr 13 10:33:19 2001
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 10:33:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:20:42 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmwv8okgyl.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > ! rpm -qa | | sed -e 's/$/.ARCH.rpm/' > /var/athena/release-rpms
>
> A few problems:
>
> * "| |" will generate a syntax error.
> * You have to put a '/' at the beginning of the line
> (rpmupdate should be less picky here, but it's not).
> * This will pretty much screw SMP machines.
>
> Is it really that hard to stash the release RPM list somewhere and
> copy it in in the postinstall script?
The SIPB installer doesn't directly use the release RPM list, IIRC.
I suppose we could track that and then have a two stage process where
we:
1) copy the file to the install dir
2) put it in the proper place in the installation
> If you do go with this approach, you might consider:
>
> rpm -qa --queryformat '/%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n'
So, how would this screw SMP machines?
-derek
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