Re: Has RedHat stopped serving 'free' up2date accounts???

["Shaun T. Erickson" <ste ste-land com>]

fluke gibson mw luc edu wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>
>
> > Joe Giles wrote:
> >
> > > Here, Here... APT is great. I use it all the time. No need for up2date
> > > anymore...
> > >
> > > Try it at least.. There is a cool GUI front end for it called Synaptic.
> > > Great software...
> >
> >
> > I downloaded both apt and synaptic. I then used synaptic to upgrade my 
> > pristine RH9 workstation at home. It determined that there were a few 
> > packages that needed upgrading and a handfull that needed to be added 
> > because of dependencies. So far, so good.
> >
> >
> > Unlike my experience with up2date, which has been very good (and which I 
> > use with a paid-for rhn account to keep a RH9 server updated), I was 
> > less than impressed:
> >
> > While installing package glibc-2.3.2-27.9:
> > warning: /etc/localtime created as /etc/localtime.rpmnew
> > error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-27.9) scriptlet failed, exit status 121
>
>
> Looks like RH Bug #88456!
>
> I have been using synaptic on some systems and haven't run into this bug 
> yet.
>
> Anyways, to get a feel for what type of state the glibc update left your 
> system in, go read:
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456
>
> RH has been aware of the bug for a month, they just haven't modified the 
> glibc update accordingly yet.

After having my system hosed, I reloaded it, following my notes exactly, 
so that I could have an identically set up system. Then I used up2date 
to bring it current, instead of apt/synaptic. Everything went fine, with 
no errors reported, and the system is running quite happily.

So, why is it that apt/synaptic can't cope with the bug you mention, but 
up2date can?

	-ste