From: Jeff Dubrule <igor@pobox.com>
To: Ira Joseph Woodhead <ira@wrath.iatlas.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: pre-R5 deficiencies
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:45:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990126184501.B8495@belltower.dartmouth.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199901262207.RAA06012@wrath.iatlas.com>; from Ira Joseph Woodhead on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:07:22PM -0500
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:07:22PM -0500, Ira Joseph Woodhead wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Perhaps I'm rehashing something but I couldn't find it searching the
> archives, so:
>
> What is the reasoning behind including a findutils in pre-R5 that has no
> updatedb binary?? It even has scripts that use updatedb (cron jobs) but
> no updatedb binary. Furthermore, 'rpm -qlp *.rpm' reveals that it is not
> included in any package.
>
> After quite a lot of effort installing pre-R5 a couple of weeks ago I
> reverted back to my creaky barely-R4 from ages ago because I was so
> shocked that the most useful tool for feeling your way in a new
> installation was simply not there. It gives the impression of a very
> not-ready product, which is counter to the impression I get from you
> folks.
>
> I just checked back today after a couple of weeks to find a few packages
> updated on 15 Jan, but not findutils.
Yeah, I found & fixed this bug on my system, but still have a problem with
that package: /usr/bin/updatedb refers to /var/tmp/findutils-root/...
instead of simply /..., which is clearly broken. I had to fix that file by
hand, although I'm sure there is a 'correct' way of doing this.
The original problem stems from the fact that 'strdup' is reimplemented by the
package, but in a way that is uncompatible with the glibc2 header files. I
made a non-optimal-but-working fix to this, just to get it working.
-igor
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-26 22:07 pre-R5 deficiencies Ira Joseph Woodhead
1999-01-26 23:45 ` Jeff Dubrule [this message]
1999-01-27 0:26 ` Matt McLean
1999-01-27 2:42 ` Tom Rini
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