RHL 9 and older put xterm on as /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm as part of XFree86 Upgrading from RHL 9 to severn removes that xterm and does not put a new one on (already bugzilla'd) Once you manually install the xterm RPM, however, it installs xterm as /usr/bin/xterm This means that people upgrading from RHL 9 to severn get broken icons if they've added xterm to their desktop / toolbar / menu / whatever
Yeah, I've thought about that a bit. I think the best way to handle this would be for me to add a symlink in the xterm package for compatibility. For the xterm disappearing on upgrade problem, I'm going to add a dep on xterm from the XFree86-twm package and any others that require xterm, that should handle upgrades ok I believe.
The symlink is added in xterm-179-3 and xterm-179-3.EL now.
[mharris@laser rpmbuild]$ rpm -q xterm xterm-179-5 [mharris@laser rpmbuild]$ rpm -ql xterm /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color /usr/bin/resize /usr/bin/uxterm /usr/bin/xterm /usr/share/man/man1/resize.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz Bug status was incorrect (UPSTREAM) - updating bug status to "ERRATA"