[Yum] Re: Yum and kernel upgrades?

[Tom Diehl]

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.


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