On 20 Dec 2002, seth vidal wrote: > It handles kernels correctly. It installs the new kernels, leaving the > old ones and updated grub.conf and/or lilo.conf correctly - using the > same routines that up2date uses to do both of those. - the exact same > routines - I stole them :) Oh, good!! Thanks. > > Also I downloaded the srpm last night and when I try to unpack it rpm > > segfaults. I tried it on 2 different 8.0 machines and an rpm -K says > > the rpm is ok. Any ideas on this?? I finally got the tarball built and > > installed yum and all seems ok so far. I have not yet tried to actually > > update anything yet though. > > Odd - Can you send me the error you were receiving and on which rpm? (tigger pts10) # rpm -Uvh yum-0.9.3-1.src.rpm Segmentation fault (tigger pts10) # rpm -K yum-0.9.3-1.src.rpm yum-0.9.3-1.src.rpm: sha1 md5 OK (tigger pts10) # rpm -q rpm rpm-4.1-1.06 And just to be complete: (tigger pts10) # rpm -Uvvvh yum-0.9.3-1.src.rpm D: ============== yum-0.9.3-1.src.rpm D: Expected size: 87042 = lead(96)+sigs(180)+pad(4)+data(86762) D: Actual size: 87042 D: yum-0.9.3-1.src.rpm: MD5 digest: OK (244b18ffe14209a6bd90221f33cc0388) D: added source package [0] D: found 1 source and 0 binary packages D: Expected size: 87042 = lead(96)+sigs(180)+pad(4)+data(86762) D: Actual size: 87042 Segmentation fault I get the same results on 2 different machines. Am I doing something stupid?? > It builds ok for me on 8.0. It builds ok from the tarball for me also. -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....