Re: Re: List Archives and Red Hat 9

Good catch! I will make these changes in 2.5pre!

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 11:41:04PM -0500, Troy Johnson told me:
> 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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