Re: Major Red-Carpet Installer Problems

[1stFlight <1stflight ameritech net>]

Thank you for the prompt reply as soon as the ftp servers clear up I'll take
a stab at downloading them.  Funny thing, I'd totally forgotten that I could
go through the source of Red-Carpet, wow, what a wonderful world. Thank you.


Darryl

Ian Peters wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:54:01PM -0400, 1stFlight wrote:
> >   I just downloaded and installed the new Red-Carpet 1.0, and when I go
> > to verify packages it asks to remove all of my KDE files! WTF!?!  Then
> > when I go to update Ximian Gnome to 1.4, it lists a bunch of files it
> > says are missing that are already present on my system! What's wrong
> > here?
>
> Red Carpet uses the package management system on your machine to
> verify dependencies and decide what files are needed.
>
> If you don't have the correct dependencies installed, Red Carpet will
> suggest that you removed that packages.  Just because you have the
> files installed on your system doesn't mean you have the correct
> entries in the RPM database.
>
> What this means in your case is that you have KDE RPM's installed with
> --force --nodeps, and you have files installed on your system that RPM
> is looking for, but they are installed by hand rather than through the
> RPM mechanism.
>
> So, as to what's wrong here, it appears that your KDE installation is
> force-installed (or you have force removed dependencies of KDE after
> installation), and you have installed packages by hand rather than
> through RPM without telling the RPM database about it.
>
> Perhaps Red Carpet isn't the right tool for you, since you don't seem
> to want to be bound by the package management system.  All of our
> RPM's are available by ftp if you'd like to install them by hand (with
> whatever --force flags turn out to be necessary).
>
> PS. There is no KDE conspiracy.  Red Carpet wants to remove any
> packages that are not installed correctly when you go to Verify, and
> in your case that just turns out to be KDE.  In beta testing, Red
> Carpet even tried to remove itself.
>
> I invite anyone who disagrees with my assertion to look through the
> sources and show me where the evil KDE removing code is.
>
> --
> Ian Peters      "...it is 5 am and the sun has charred the other
> itp gnu org      side of the earth and come back to us and painted
> itp ximian com   the smoke over our heads an imperial violet..."

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