Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5864
rpm ignores installation requests
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:52 EDT
Installed RedHat Linux 6.1 Trying to install the source-code rpms (or all rpms I've tried so far) results in rpm not doing the actual installation. Using "rpm -i --hash" prints the hashes but does not copy any files from the CD-ROM. To cross-check this behaviour I used gnorpm. gnorpm opens the package selection window and finds all the packages on the source-code CD-ROM, but (with packages selected for installation) it ignores the "install" button and the "upgrade" button. It simply does nothing. rpm version included in RedHat 6.1 is rpm 3.0.3. This has all the looks of a most-annoying bug. -Zone804.
I can't reproduce this here. The sources for the RPM are installed in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, or the appropriate other directory, if specified. ------- Additional Comments From 10/13/99 01:24 ------- I tried reproducing the behaviour again to get some more data and rpm worked flawlessly. I re-installed choosing Gnome Workstation like my first intallation with problems and it worked fine. Then did another installation selecting all packages and it also works. All I can say is it's working fine now - I must have made some sort of mistake or typo, and repeated the mistake a lot of times. Thank you for your help... I suppose I need more sleep before filing a report. -Zone804.