Re: Problems with .rpmrc file and topdir.

[Stan Bubrouski <satan fastdial net>]

Phillip Neiswanger wrote:

> Yup.  And Adrian's solution worked great.  So are there any other gotchas in
> "Maximum RPM"?
>

Several, but as far as I can tell they are too numerous to mention.  One
solution
would be to read the ChangeLog for rpm from the CVS tree, it's a good
indications
of things that have changed since previous versions and it seems very accurate.

-Stan

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:16 AM
> To: Phillip Neiswanger
> Cc: rpm-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Problems with .rpmrc file and topdir.
>
> On Monday 11 September 2000, at 15 h 53, the keyboard of Phillip Neiswanger
> <pneiswan@evolving.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get rpm to use the topdir variable out of my .rpmrc file.
> It
> > consistently reports: "bad option 'topdir' at /u/pneiswan/.rpmrc:1".
>
> You're yet another victim of "Maximum RPM" and of the very annoying lack of
> compatibility between versions of rpm. See Adrian's solution.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rpm-list mailing list
> Rpm-list@redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rpm-list mailing list
> Rpm-list@redhat.com
> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list