[KLUG Members] RH 8.0 Pkg Mgr "Tree" error

[Andrew Thompson]

I was having the same problem with the 7.0 disk set, and had no better
luck resolving the issue.

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 19:17, Mike Morrett wrote:
> Gee, I sure hope *I* don't get a reputation for answering my own
> Emails!!!!
> 
> But, I have found where the error message comes from, and I have no clue
> on how to fix it.
> 
> It is from line 675 of /usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py
> 
> I assume the coding is Python?????

Yes, it looks RedHat may be using Python for a lot of these utilities 
now.  If I recall from my 'strace' attempts, the program attempts to
open any of a series of locations that this tree should be found, but I
haven't been able to get beyond that, and frankly, I don't have that
much time to dink around with it.

> Is the problem maybe something todo with the BSware CD not have a
> checksum?

Could be, but I kind of doubt it. If anything, I'm guessing the tree
ain't planted where it's supposed to be. How to find out where it IS, I
couldn't say off the top of my head. Ideas, anyone?

I have noted that not everyone seems to have this problem. What little I
have found on the web seems to suggest that for some people it just
comes up like it's supposed to without a single complaint. Others,
well... so far, I haven't found any replies to their predicament.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes@ameritech.net>
The Imagerie