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

[Mike Morrett]

Thanks to Bruce Smith, he figured out my install missed one .rpm!

For some strange reason, on CD#1, in the /RedHat/base directory, there is
one .rpm file: comps.rpm

You would think it would be in the /Redhat/RPMS directory, AND have the
correct name: comps-8.0-0.20020910.rpm!

To see what directories/files are included in comps.rpm, do they
following:

# rpm -qpl /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/base/comps.rpm
/usr/share/comps
/usr/share/comps/i386
/usr/share/comps/i386/.discinfo
/usr/share/comps/i386/comps.xml
/usr/share/comps/i386/hdlist
/usr/share/comps/i386/hdlist2

(I think Bruce's tip, was I didn't have the /usr/share/comps directory.)

Again, thanks to "BS".

Mike

On 23 Jan 2003 21:18:35 -0500, "Andrew Thompson" <tempes@ameritech.net>
said:
> 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
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