Re: Strangeness with recent FC5 update

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Jim Cornette wrote:

The file is visible if you dive into the rpms for and rpm using mc to
view the content of the file. Clicking on either the *INSTALL or the
*UPGRADE file will either install an rpm or a deb package via mc.

Below is the output generated if one clicks on the *UPGRADE
file via mc. If you are familiar with viewing rpm internals with mc, you will see these files when exploring the rpms. The files are not installed. The files initialize either an upgrade or install when you click on them.

  /usr/share/mc/extfs/rpm run
/var/rpms/GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686.rpm UPGRADE
Upgrading ""'/var/rpms/GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686.rpm'""
error: Failed dependencies:
         /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by
GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686
         kernel = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by
GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686


Ah, those are virtual views provided by mc and not real files. If you want to see how it really works, you can cvs.fedora.redhat.com to read the actually specs or extract the package specs using rpm2cpio or file roller and read them.

More information at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/RPM. Hope that helps.

Rahul


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