Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87546
up2date --download --src --force bash (doesn't work, bash already installed)
Last modified: 2012-06-20 12:57:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: openssl-0.9.6b-30-7.src.rpm for RedHat Advanced Server is not available on the ftp sites... It seems to only be availabe via the RHN service. I have an RHAS 2.1 licensed server, it is registered with RHN, it is already completely up2date. I try to get the source rpm using up2date: [root@bonzo root]# up2date --download --src openssl Retrieving list of all available packages... ######################################## Removing installed packages from list of updates... ######################################## Removing packages with files not specified from list... There are no packages available for update. None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. I try the same thing with --force option, it returns the same error. I sent an e-mail to the customer service desk through RHN and they told me to use the web interface to download the source RPM. Although I agree that this is a valid workaround, it would be nice if up2date would do what the options obviously imply. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install a package using up2date 2. try to use up2date to download the source rpm for the package that is already installed Actual Results: received the message that the packages were already updated, and no download of the source RPM occurred. Expected Results: the Source RPM should have been downloaded into the "tmpdir" for the up2date utility. Additional info: Apparently this is fixed in the versions of up2date used in the personal editions of RedHat Linux, but not fixed in the advanced server line.
current versions support "--get" and "--get-source" to download a package directly
Installed latest versions of up2date, still doesn't work with either (the unsupported option) --get-source, or with "-d --src" [root@bonzo root]# uname -a Linux bonzo.reston.tnsi.com 2.4.9-e.38smp #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 00:09:01 EST 2004 i686 unknown [root@bonzo root]# up2date -i up2date Fetching package list for channel: redhat-advanced-server-i386... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-advanced-server-i386... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. [root@bonzo root]# up2date --get-source openssl Unknown option --get-source Usage: up2date [--configure] [--src] [--nosrc] [--dbpath=<dir>] [--justdb] [--dry-run] [-k STRING] [--nosig] [--nox] [--hardware] [--showall] [--solvedeps=<deps>] [--tmpdir=<directory>] [--version] [--show-channels] [--whatprovides=<deps>] [--installall] [--channel=STRING] [--gpg-flags] [--nodownload] [OPTIONS] <packages> [root@bonzo root]# up2date -d --src openssl Fetching package list for channel: redhat-advanced-server-i386... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-advanced-server-i386... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. [root@bonzo root]# rpm -qa | grep up2date up2date-gnome-2.9.14-1.2.1AS up2date-2.9.14-1.2.1AS
Sorry, only available on RHEL3 and newer.
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