RPM

[der.hans]

Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte Rod Roark so:

> Hmm, my wife has been on 7.1 for a while without incident.  Of course 
> I never use rpmdrake, just rpm from the command line.  I'd be interested 
> to hear any more details about what's broken.

The main things I'm running into are a somewhat hosed X setup (that
might've been me not understanding how Mandrake is setup, but Mandrake is
definitely hosed for KDE on a small, low-quality monitor) and probs with
the admin packages. LinuxConf does what it's supposed to (for the most
part), but generally dumps core when it exits. Guess that counts as
exiting :).

rpmdrake is massively hosed and won't work. Several regexps in
/usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia won't work. It's calling wget with illegal URLs
[1]. rpmdrake doesn't allow for specifying where on a CD to find the
repository, but /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia needs that info to
function. There are also several other errors I haven't looked at. They
could be in another function, but they cause rpmdrake to not work.

I've run into several other probs, but don't know if they're Mandrake
being hosed or me not understanding how Mandrake's setup.

Not having apt-get is definitely broken. OTOH one of the GUI tools claims
to support using debs, so maybe I can do a Mandrake->debian conversion :).

ciao,

der.hans

[1] wget -O /local/path/and/file.cz2 http://somehost.domain/some/path/
with ../base/hdlist.cz2

"http://somehost.domain/some/path/ with ../base/hdlist.cz2" is not a valid
URL. Also they don't check that "http://somehost.domain/some/path/" has a
trailing slash.

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