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  From: Alan Kennington <Alan.Kennington@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 19:17:17 +1030

no RPMS in SRPMS directory

Topic:
-   Mysterious lack of rpms according to glint.
    But I _know_ they're there!

Whenever I try to use the graphical thing (glint?) for installing rpms
on several different linux machines, I find that the RPM files
in the SRPMS directory on the CD-ROM (the source RPMS, that is)
are simply "not found".

Yesterday, I had a very clear-cut case of this.
I installed RH 5.2 onto an old 486 machine -- no problems
at all, even using NFS to install from my other PC which had the
CD-ROM reader on it.

Then I wanted to read in the source for IPv4 kernel software from the
second CD-ROM in the set.

The second CD-ROM listing is:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[akenning@dog]$ ls -l
total 87
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root        18702 May  7  1998 COPYING
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root         1023 Oct 12 19:36 README
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        65536 Oct 15 18:00 SRPMS
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          132 Oct 15 19:09 TRANS.TBL
[akenning@dog]$
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The rpm files are definitely in the SRPMS directory:

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[akenning@dog]$ ls -l | head -10
total 518704
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      1352764 Oct 14 20:56 AfterStep-1.5-0.7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      1246055 Oct 14 20:56 AfterStep-APPS-1.5-0.3.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root       284536 Oct 14 20:56 AnotherLevel-0.7.3-1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root        30203 Oct 14 20:56 ElectricFence-2.0.5-11.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      2399545 Oct 14 20:56 ImageMagick-4.1.0-1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root        15604 Oct 14 20:56 MAKEDEV-2.3.1-7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root       386680 Oct 14 20:56 SVGATextMode-1.8-2.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root       107935 Oct 14 20:56 SysVinit-2.74-5.src.rpm
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        25977 Oct 15 19:09 TRANS.TBL
[akenning@dog]$ ls -l kernel*
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      9284817 Oct 14 21:02 kernel-2.0.36-0.7.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      7546356 Oct 14 21:02 kernel-alpha-2.0.35-5.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root      9419095 Oct 14 21:02 kernel-sparc-2.0.35-11.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   2 root     root        14482 Oct 14 21:02 kernelcfg-0.5-3.src.rpm
[akenning@dog]$
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

But when I run the "glint" tool (or whatever runs from the control panel
to manage packages), it reads carefully through the CD-ROM SRPMS directory,
taking about a minute to read it all over the ethernet, and then comes up
with a message about there being no RPMs in the specified directory.
(This is after setting the "Configure" option to the correct directory.)

On the other hand, when I go into the SRPMS and type "rpm -i" on
the relevant rpm file, everything works fine.
So there's nothing at all wrong with the source rpm files
as far as the "rpm" program is concerned.

Question:
Is this a known bug in "glint"?
I.e. is "glint" just not capable of installing source rpm files?

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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