On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:14:50 -0400 Michael Shell <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > find . -type f -print | sort | xargs grep CheckUnifiedSystemdir > > I wonder if they removed it, or is this something for a special version > of rpm (the alternate 5.x series or some such). > > Google would be the way to go here for info, but Google search seems > to be broken (error 404, with broken robot response) just now (no joke). Well, I did not find the CheckUnifiedSystemdir in RPM5 either: http://rpm5.org/ BTW, this package uses spaces in some of its filenames which requires a change in the search command above: find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 grep CheckUnifiedSystemdir After Google came back, I did find out what the X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir business is all about: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17 It seems that Fedora 17 merged all the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin stuff into /usr/bin. So, this is a major change. The X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir is an artificial added dependency that guards against installing packages that require a Fedora 17 directory layout to non-upgraded systems that are using the old layout. But, you are using Fedora 17, right? Is your /bin dir a symlink to /usr/bin as it should be for Fedora 17? I am curious as to how rpmlib even can "provide" X-CheckUnifiedSystemdir on Fedora 17 systems given that I could not find the string in either of the RPM source package releases. Is this found only in the official Red Hat / Fedora releases of RPM? Red Hat, oh what a tangled web we weave. Cheers, Mike Shell
