[3547] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: update failure from fresh install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Sep 4 01:30:36 2001
Message-Id: <200109040530.BAA17164@bearing-an-hourglass.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "03 Sep 2001 14:16:18 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 01:30:31 -0400
> OH, I bet _THAT_ is the problem !!!!
>
> The SIPB installer is going to install the _old_ RPM format, so you
> need to update_ws first to update the RPM format, and THEN take
> the 9.0 update. I bet that's what's going on.
No, that's not it. Changes in 8.4.25 cause the machine to update the
format on boot, IIRC so as long as the machine is running 8.4.25 that
isn't the problem. If you read Greg's mail more carefully, you'll
notice that the problem is the missing epochs in the
/var/athena/release-rpms file. The reason the update to 8.4.26 fixes
the problem is that it puls in the 8.4.26 version of the file from the
release, and it has the correct epoch numbers.
Jonathon
