Bug 50973 - Roswell breaks ximian red-carpet
Summary: Roswell breaks ximian red-carpet
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: roswell
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-05 20:45 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-05 20:46:04 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-08-05 20:46:00 UTC 
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Description of problem:
the ximian red-carpet rpm updater no longer runs after upgrading a 7.1
system to roswell.  red-carpet (real-carpet) reports following errors:

"Unable to access packaging subsystem"
"unable to open rpm library"

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run red-carpet
2.provide root password at dialog box
3.watch red-carpet halt with error
	

Actual Results:  red-carpet fails to run

Expected Results:  red-carpet should run

Additional info:

Severity depends on what caused the problem and if this should be fixed by
RedHat or Ximian.  See also Bug 6461 at ximian: 
http://bugs.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6461
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-05 20:58:13 UTC 
Talk to Ximian about statically linking against rpm-4.0.3.
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