Re: and some more stuff..

You wrote:
>Was that a condescending tone or humor? I will take it as humor.

Eh, now that you mention it, I was a bit condescending there. My apologies.

>You are right, this is network traffic. Unfortunately because GRAB does not
>download from a specific repository that already has a dependancy database set
>up, this will always be a problem. Also that traffic is being generated by
>rpm, and you can turn it off with the option --nodeps (undocumented as of now),
>or in the config file.

It's not a problem that GRAB tries to build its own dependency (sic) database.
The problem is that the -> and <- aren't very informative. It looks as if
nothing is happening, while the meters do show traffic. Maybe GRAB could
explain better what it is doing at that time, instead of the -> and <-?

And also:
>what OS are you using? On RedHat taken right from manpage:
><snip>
>rpm  --checksig [--nogpg] [--nopgp] [--nomd5] PACKAGE_FILE ...
></snip>

I'm running RawHide (more or less), with rpm version 4.1-0.15. rpm itself
doesn't show these options when asked for --help and gives this error
when invoked as rpm --checksig --nopgp [random_package_file] :
--nopgp: unknown option
The same thing happens with --nogpg. Because it doesn't check the
package's signature then, GRAB registers it as a failure and recommends
using the --redownload option.

Kimiko Koopman