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

[Andrew Thompson]

Add in my thanks for the tip, but it turns out I needed to do something
a little different...

On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 11:40, Mike Morrett wrote:
> 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

This file does not exist on the 7.0 release. At least, it doesn't in the
two sets I have. However...

> 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

All these files except .discinfo are in the base directory where your
comps.rpm was located. I simply created /usr/share/comps and the i386
directory inside it on my installation, and moved those files there. I
had to create the .discinfo file from Bruce's copy. Thank you VERY much
for attaching that to the earlier message, Bruce!

So, now it works, for what that's worth. Unfortunately, it looks like
it's designed to work ONLY with the RedHat distro disks. There isn't
even an 'add software' button. What gives? Am I only supposed to be able
to manage the packages RedHat sees fit to provide?

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes@ameritech.net>
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