Re: backup to vmlinuz.fou4s ?

On Oct 14, Lars Ellenberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> btw, why not do
> "rpm -ihv" if pgk == $KERNELPKG ?
> I mean, for most packages it is best to do -Uhv.
> but for some, like the kernel, it is probably good to do -ihv.
I've found a bug in fou4s (thanks to Klaus Lehmann for reporting :) and it 
doesn't like duplicate entries in the RPM database (causing wrong attempts 
to update packages that already have the right version). A few other 
people have reported this and I couldn't find the solution before.

> and, while looking at the code in rpmInstall(), I saw this strange
> prefix="su - -c" handling.  I assume this whole thing is to get rid of
> the gid=fou4s on install, while still have --test intstalls as normal
> user possible?
Right. I've also seen, that the su construct doesn't like the RPM 
parameters (su: unknown option "-U") ... it's just broken, so I'm thankful 
for your patches!

Markus

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