Bug 1248
| Summary: | RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX broken under glint | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | diana |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-04-06 21:04:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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There are two problems here: 1) glint doesn't invoke rpm correctly. was not Gnorpm replaces glint in Red Hat 6.0 2) RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX was not being set correctly. The old-style --prefix has been resurrected in rpm-2.94-3 |
From: Diana King <diana> One specific problem which our customers had when installing the KAI C++ (KCC) rpm from the LACD was using glint (or other graphical interfaces to rpm). Our rpm was relocatable, so our post-install script (and others) made use of RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX. Apparently these graphical interfaces to rpm do not all set this environment variable like rpm does. No one had any problems with using the command line version of rpm. Specifically, customers who had problems reported using "glint" and "the Package Management program under Xwindows". One person (who had freshly installed RedHat 5.2 and was) using glint reported that "Glint locks up and the package never completes the install. Glint works fine when I install rpms from RedHat." He also included the following error output from trying to install KCC. [root@socrates rpms]# glint & [1] 3167 [root@socrates rpms]# Glint Graphical Package Manager -- version 2.6.2 Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 752, in __call__ return apply(self.func, args) File "./glint.py", line 159, in installButton self.install(packages) File "./glint.py", line 182, in install DoInstall(packages) File "./install.py", line 252, in DoInstall InstallPackages(packages, 0, root, test) File "./install.py", line 223, in InstallPackages (code, out, err) = rhrun("/bin/rpm", rpmargs, File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/rhutil.py", line 130, in rhrun callBack(cbArgs, line) File "./install.py", line 165, in installProgress if (line[0] != "%"): return IndexError: string index out of range If you could pass these problem reports on to the appropriate person so that they can be fixed for future releases, we would greatly appreciate it. We'll be happy to provide any additional information that we have, but I think that the customers who had problems were just doing basic installs.