Re: Re: List Archives and Red Hat 9

Hi Greg,

I looked at grab-2.4 and found it only checks for rpm versions 4.0 and 4.1. Red Hat 9 has version 4.2:

[/var/ftp/pub/redhat]$ ls */RedHat/RPMS/rpm-4*
7.3/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-4.0.4-7x.18.i386.rpm
8.0/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-4.1-1.06.i386.rpm
9/RedHat/RPMS/rpm-4.2-0.69.i386.rpm

I looked at 'rpm --help' and saw that the options were the same as those listed for RHL 8.0, so I made some changes and they seemed to work (moved /etc/grab/config, ran grab, it puts in "--nosignature --nodigest" for "rpm opts"). I made this diff of the changes from grab 2.4:

==================================================
1369c1369
<       } elsif ( $rpmversion =~ /^4.1/ ) {
---
>       } elsif ( $rpmversion =~ /^4\.[12]/ ) {
==================================================

Thank you again for grab!

Troy

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:11:43 -0500 
Subject: Re: [Grab Mailing List] List Archives and Red Hat 9

Hi Greg,

Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> 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.

I did this and grab replaced '/etc/grab/config' with a version that had 
the erroneous comment line in it (as it was before, with "rpm opts = 
#rpm opts#"). I moved my modified config back to '/etc/grab/config' and 
it works. I forgot to mention this is a new install of RH9, not an upgrade.

> 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?

I don't know for sure, as I don't know exactly what would be gained or 
lost by this change, but it may just move the possibility for error from 
'grab' to the RPM build config files. I like simplicity, so I guess I'd 
rather look at 'grab' alone for possible errors.

Please assign the lightest weight possible to my comments as I am 
relatively new to 'grab'.

Thank you much,

Troy

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