Re: RedHat update of up2date.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:06:24AM -0400, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> OK, VOTE TIME.

I don't care either way.

> I'm sitting on 1.4.2, which is up2date v2.8 and v3.0 compatibility,
> because we have reports that somethings broken in the delete code (The
> reason clean trees work is that they don't hit the bugs in the delete
> code).
> 
> Last night John B. gave me a mirror of his 18G unclean tree (its
> basically a mirror of ftp.redhat.com).
> 
> Guess what? Builds great for me using the same snapshot that broke for
> him.

The unclean tree/channel that fails for me (traceback during channel
build) is basically the original RH 6.2 RPM's plus the 6.2 errata. Does
that build for you? (If that's not enough detail for you to reproduce,
I'll give more detail later.)

BTW, I'm having another weird problem. Some of my machines had Red Hat
7.1 preloaded by Dell. They were later upgraded to 7.3. On these
machines, there's a weird problem involving the zebra and gated
packages. Namely, if gated is installed, up2date will uninstall gated
and install zebra, then the next run will uninstall zebra and install
gated, and the cycle repeats. (This is with up2date 2.8.) The machines
in question really don't need either package, but I thought I'd report
this problem anyway. (FWIW, the exact package versions are zebra-0.92a-3
and gated-3.6-14.)

-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>