On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:51, Tom Diehl wrote: > 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 > Bizarre. I can't replicate this on an 8.0 machine. this doesn't happen with any of the other pkgs you try to install? can you build from the tarball via rpmbuild -ta tarball? -sv