Official XFree86 sources use /etc/X11/xkb as a directory and /usr/X11R6/lib/xkb links to that directory. Red Hat does this totally backwards, they make /usr/X11R6/lib/xkb the directory and /usr/X11/xkb links to it, so the RPM barfs and the hour of installation is wasted because Anaconda goes tits up because it can't deal with it.
Options:
STOP BUGGERING WITH THESE TWO DIRS/LINKS!
Make the RPM scripts able to handle this situation, I KNOW I'm not the only one that sometimes updates XFree from source!
Make Anaconda able to handle these types of situations gracefully, and either give the user a chance to fix the problem manually (given a chroot and some suggestions most users could at least try to figure it out.. I could have fixed it in 30s and continued). No, Anaconda says "Oh, I couldn't do some meanial thing.. Press OK to reboot."
Don't tell me Red Hat doesn't support source installed things, that's a bunch of crap because IT HAPPENS. I KNOW they can't possibly work around situations, but praytell why are these dir/links *backwards* in the first damn place? That's the root of the problem.
I'll be looking for a bugzilla on this one, again.. Filed one last time too.
There's 1+ hours wasted.
-- Walter Francis http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.3
