Re: [Nautilus-list] Red Hat Update Agent

[Garrett Mickelson <garrett penguincomputing com>]

I don't know if I'd go that route. I'd probably download the up2date rpm
for Red Hat's latest public beta of 7.1 and see what dependence issues I
am confronted with, then decide if going forward would be less painful
than going backwards, as my fear would be that rpm-python-4.0 might
crash during install of packages via up2date. It might expect rpm 4.0
and get 4.0.2, which it may not hook into properly. I don't know enough
abut rpm to even know if me hunch is right, I just know I'm crazy enough
to try the beta stuff first :-) I did get confronted with a similar
situation once before though. I had Nautilus PR3 on a tradeshow dualhead
machine running 7.0. When I went to run Red Carpet after installing it,
of course I couldn't install any packages. I then tried up2date, but to
no avail. I chose to rpm -i --force --nodeps rpm*-4.0 on the system with
the packages on the Red Hat 7 CD and now it crashes the rpm command
every time, as opposed to just with up2date or RC. Problem was, I think,
that the rpm database was modified by 4.0.2 so that I could not use 4.0
with it and rpm --rebuilddb did nothing, except segfault.......

My 2 cents

Garrett Mickelson
 

On 16 Mar 2001 18:00:19 -0500, Matthew Keller wrote:
> Christian Rose wrote:
> > I think it's at least somewhat related :)
> > I believe it has something to do with incompabilities between rpm 4.0.2
> > (as installed with Nautilus previews) and rpm 4.0 (as shipped with Red
> > Hat 7). up2date (the Red Hat update agent) crashes with a Python (not
> > Perl) error when used on a system with rpm 4.0.2, but I don't know if
> > there's anything to do about it (except waiting for a new up2date
> > release).
> 
>       I have confirmed a) this problem exists only with rpm-python-4.0.2 and
> that b) Naulitus runs fine with rpm-python-4.0 - Forcibly downgrade the
> rpm-python module and this should go away.
> 
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