Re: List Archives and Red Hat 9

There is a bug that I have not fixed yet when upgrading GRAB and the GRAB
config files. GRAB puts the '#rpm opts#' value instead of the actual arguments
that should be there.

Move your /etc/grab/config file aside, and just run 'grab' with no arguments.
It will rewrite the config file, and will try to automatically figure out what
values to use there.

The problem is that different versions of RPM seem to require different
arguments. GRAB tries to figure out what you need, and uses that when
creating/upgrading the config file.

I have been thinking of having RPM handle the /etc/grab/* files instead of
GRAB (so the config files would be part of the RPM). Does anybody have any 
thoughts on this?

Greg

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:28:51PM -0500, Troy Johnson told me:
> The Red Hat 9 install problem was fixed by eliminating a comment from 
> the stock '/etc/grab/config' file. The working config is:
> 
>   # rpm opts = #rpm opts#
>    rpm opts =
> 
> and the key thing was a 'rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY' thing. Is this a new 
> thing since RH80? Did Red Hat import their key automatically in RH73 and 
> previous version? Just curious,
> 
> Troy
> 
> 
> Troy Johnson wrote:
> >Is there a list archive I can search through? If so, please let me know 
> >where.
> >
> >Do Red Hat 9 and grab work together for anyone else? I get some 
> >interesting error messages (below).
> >
> >The '--buildrep' on the RH9 repository went fine on the server (RH73), 
> >and the 'what to update' part seems to go well enough, and the RPMs are 
> >downloaded, but the 'key checking' seems to go bad, and nothing is 
> >installed. I can (and have) gone to the cache directory and updated 
> >everything from there, but I wanted to check if this is "the way things 
> >are right now" or if I did some "thinking challenged" configuring.
> >
> >Thanks for reading,
> >
> >Troy
> >
> >==============================================
> >[root@hercules ~]# grab --sysupdate --noskip
> >-Updating remote RPM cache database
> >-Grabbing list of ftp servers from:
> > ftp://ftp.jdmz.net/pub/grab/lists/redhat-9.txt
> >  >ftp.jdmz.net
> >  >[email protected]
> > ->Indexed [1402] RPMS from [email protected]
> > ->Indexed [1] RPMS from [email protected]
> > ->Indexed [13] RPMS from [email protected]/SRPMS
> > ->Indexed [2] RPMS from [email protected]/athlon
> > ->Indexed [46] RPMS from [email protected]/i386
> > ->Indexed [1] RPMS from [email protected]/i586
> > ->Indexed [9] RPMS from [email protected]/i686
> >-Updating remote provides database with new packages
> >-Comparing 1462 of 1462 with Valgor
> >-Obtaining current RPM list
> >-Filtered Package Statistics:
> > 47 Consolidated, 1 Diff Arch, 855 Current,  Skip List, 550 Other Status
> >-Please select one (or more) of the following matched RPMS:
> >
> > Num S Package name       Version     Installed   Arch   Size   Server Desc
> > --- - ------------------ ----------- ----------- ------ ------ 
> >---------------
> > 1   U glibc              2.3.2-27.9  2.3.2-11.9  i686   4.6M 
> >[email protected]
> > 2   U glibc-common       2.3.2-27.9  2.3.2-11.9  i386   11.8M 
> >[email protected]
> > 3   U glibc-devel        2.3.2-27.9  2.3.2-11.9  i386   2.2M 
> >[email protected]
> > 4   U gtkhtml            1.1.9-0.9   1.1.8-5     i386   624K 
> >[email protected]
> > 5   U gtkhtml-devel      1.1.9-0.9   1.1.8-5     i386   340K 
> >[email protected]
> > 6   U httpd              2.0.40-21.1 2.0.40-21   i386   1.0M 
> >[email protected]
> > 7   U httpd-manual       2.0.40-21.1 2.0.40-21   i386   813K 
> >[email protected]
> > 8   U mod_ssl            2.0.40-21.1 2.0.40-21   i386   76K 
> >[email protected]
> > 9   U nscd               2.3.2-27.9  2.3.2-11.9  i386   52K 
> >[email protected]
> >
> >-Choose number(s): ('?' for help): a
> >-Here is what I will download:
> >  glibc, glibc-common, glibc-devel, gtkhtml, gtkhtml-devel, httpd, 
> >httpd-manual,
> >  mod_ssl, nscd
> >
> >-You selected 21.6M of archives
> > ->Do you want to continue? [Y/n]:
> >-Reading in current RPM provides list
> >-Building dependancy tree
> >-All dependancies seem to be accounted for
> >-Grabbing the selected packages...
> > (1/9) glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm                 100%  4763/4763 kB - 
> >2388 kB/s
> > (2/9) glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm         100%  12148/12148 kB - 
> >4056 kB/s
> > (3/9) glibc-devel-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm           100%  2285/2285 kB - 
> >1528 kB/s
> > (4/9) gtkhtml-1.1.9-0.9.i386.rpm                   100%  624/624 kB - 
> >421 kB/s
> > (5/9) gtkhtml-devel-1.1.9-0.9.i386.rpm             100%  340/340 kB - 
> >232 kB/s
> > (6/9) httpd-2.0.40-21.1.i386.rpm                 100%  1032/1032 kB - 
> >693 kB/s
> > (7/9) httpd-manual-2.0.40-21.1.i386.rpm            100%  813/813 kB - 
> >546 kB/s
> > (8/9) mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.1.i386.rpm                    100%  76/76 kB - 
> >56 kB/s
> > (9/9) nscd-2.3.2-27.9.i386.rpm                        100%  52/52 kB - 
> >40 kB/s
> >-Checking the signature of the cached RPM(s)
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >rpmk: no arguments given
> > -> ERROR:
> >-Some RPM(s) failed to validate
> >-You may wish to try re-invoking grab with the '--redownload' option
> >-Calling 'rpm -Uvh' for '9' package(s)
> >error: open of #rpm failed: No such file or directory
> >error: open of opts# failed: No such file or directory
> >warning: /var/cache/grab/RPMS/glibc-2.3.2-27.9.i686.rpm: V3 DSA 
> >signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e
> >-RPM had a non-zero exit code, not erasing downloaded RPMS
> >[root@hercules ~]#
> >==============================================
> >
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