From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <19990126184501.B8495@belltower.dartmouth.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:45:01 -0500 From: Jeff Dubrule To: Ira Joseph Woodhead , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: pre-R5 deficiencies References: <199901262207.RAA06012@wrath.iatlas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199901262207.RAA06012@wrath.iatlas.com>; from Ira Joseph Woodhead on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:07:22PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]