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Re: GNU hiccup?



On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote:

> I upgraded my home system from RedHat 5.1 to 5.2, and several
> packages blarfed with the error:
> 
> execution of script failed
> 	cannot open RPM file fileutils-3.16-10.i386.rpm: Success
> 
> Substitute "fileutils...." with this list:
> info, fileutils, autoconf, bc, binutils, cpio, cvs, egcs, emacs,
> findutils, gcc, gdb, glibc-devel, gpm, indent, m4, make, mgetty,
> mtools, psacct, readline, screen, sed, tar, time, wget 
> 
> Note how most of these are GNU tools. Is it just me, or do you think
> that my linux box suddenly took a stance agains RMS in the GNU/Linux
> holy war? :-)
> 
> Seriouslier now, these packages /seem/ to have been installed,
> BUT without properly uninstalling the OLD versions:
> 
> 	# rpm -q sed			(for instance)
> 	sed-2.05-10
> 	sed-3.02-1
> 
> Huh?
> 	# /bin/sed --version
> 	GNU sed version 3.02
> 	...
> 
> 	# rpm -V sed
> 	S.5....T   /bin/sed
> 	S.5....T   /usr/man/man1/sed.1
> 
> Oy.
> 
> It looks like the rpm database wasn't cleaned from the old versions.
> Anyone seen anything like this before? I've upgraded Red Hat systems
> quite a few times myself, but never seen this happen.
> 
> --
> believing is seeing
> gaal@forum2.org
> http://www.forum2.org/gaal/
> 

Hi,
I noticed similar messages when doing an upgrade from 4.2 to 5.2. After
the upgrade I noticed that "su" didn't work because of undefined symbol 
'__xstat'.

 - yba

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