Strangeness with recent FC5 update

[Rahul]

Jim Cornette wrote:

> The file is visible if you dive into the rpms for and rpm using mc to
> view the content of the file. Clicking on either the *INSTALL or the
> *UPGRADE file will either install an rpm or a deb package via mc.
> 
> Below is the output generated if one clicks on the *UPGRADE
> file via mc. If you are familiar with viewing rpm internals with mc, you 
> will see these files when exploring the rpms. The files are not 
> installed. The files initialize either an upgrade or install when you 
> click on them.
> 
>   /usr/share/mc/extfs/rpm run
> /var/rpms/GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686.rpm UPGRADE
> Upgrading ""'/var/rpms/GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686.rpm'""
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by
> GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686
>          kernel = 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 is needed by
> GFS-kernel-2.6.15.1-5.FC5.17.i686
> 

Ah, those are virtual views provided by mc and not real files. If you 
want to see how it really works, you can cvs.fedora.redhat.com to read 
the actually specs or extract the package specs using rpm2cpio or file 
roller and read them.

More information at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/RPM. Hope that 
helps.

Rahul