Greetings. I've been seeing some strange behavior with the "alpine"
package in Fedora 8 and 9 recently.
The gist of it is that there don't seem to be any configuration files
for alpine, even though RPM lists them.
Here's an example from a Fedora 8 system. I get the same thing on a
Fedora 9 system.
[root@localsys ~]# grep alpine /var/log/yum.log
Oct 27 16:58:27 Installed: alpine-2.00-1.fc8.i386
No complaints from the installer. OK, what got installed?
[root@localsys ~]# rpm -ql alpine
/etc/pine.conf
/etc/pine.conf.fixed
/usr/bin/alpine
/usr/bin/pico
/usr/bin/pilot
/usr/bin/rpdump
/usr/bin/rpload
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/README
/usr/share/doc/alpine-2.00/tech-notes.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/alpine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pico.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pilot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpload.1.gz
That shows not one but two configuration files in /etc/.
On the other hand, there are no such configuration files:
[root@localsys ~]# ls -ld /etc/*pine*
ls: cannot access /etc/*pine*: No such file or directory
Maybe something's wrong with the installation? RPM doesn't think so:
[root@localsys ~]# rpm --verify alpine
[root@localsys ~]#
This is significant because the alpine binary seems to have been
compiled with /usr/local as the default location for browsers, for
instance. I won't repeat the output here, but try:
strings /usr/bin/alpine | grep netscape
or
strings /usr/bin/alpine | grep lynx
I suppose this could be "fixed" by changing individual .pinerc files,
but that seems to be treating the symptom, not the problem.
Note that I have seen a directory:
/etc/alpine
on some systems, and on one system running Scientific Linux I do find a
file:
/etc/alpine/pine.conf
On the Fedora systems that I've examined, either the /etc/alpine
directory is missing altogether, or it is there but empty.
Is this a local problem, or are others seeing it too?
Thanks.
-- Mike
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