On Tue, 18 May 2004, mbox mbarsalou wrote:
> I ran the getfullcomps as described in the Wiki and I get back a few
> CRITICAL ERROR messages. I realize that this means that those
> particular packages are missing, but this is the comps.xml file that
> comes with the CD set.
>
> Why would it do that?
>
It will also give critical errors for packages that require the
non-standard kernel (probably not the best name, but things like
kernel-smp and kernel-bigmem being required by others). The patch is
trivial:
152,153c152
< if (h['name'] == "glibc-debug" or
< h['name'].startswith("kernel-")):
---
> if (h['name'] == "glibc-debug"):
At least that is the patch agaisnt the RH 9 version. I asked about this
a while back, but got no response.
This may not be your problem, but I figured I would mention it just in
case.
Cheers...james
P.S. I would really like to know why this limitation is there. Course
I probably should have bugzilla'd it, and let the developers sort it out
whether its a NOFIX or patch gleefully accepted.
