Re: [Nautilus-list] Red Hat Update Agent

[Adrian Likins <alikins redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:54:05PM +0100, Christian Rose wrote:
> Darin Adler wrote:
> > > I am runnung Red Hat 7.0, kernel 2.2.17-14. I installed Helix Gnome using
> > > the Ximian agent as suggested. I was running Nautilus preview release 3 and
> > > used the installation script to upgrade to Release 1.0. I cannot get the Red
> > > Hat Update Agent to run. It seg faults with a perl error. Where should I
> > > start looking?
> > 
> > I'm not sure why you're asking on the Nautilus list about the Red Hat Update
> > Agent. That's really off topic for this list. Perhaps you can find a list
> > where Red Hat users help each other out.
> 
> 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).

a few things:

	 if you update rpm, please update all the rpm related
	packages while your at it, in particular "rpm-python"

	The deps between rpm-python and rpm need to be fixed, so this 
	isnt possible (already done in current version)

	be careful with what version of rpm 4.0.2 your using. Some
	widely circulated versions were pulled out of pre-alpha
	rawhide trees and have known bugs. 

that shoudl cover it

Adrian