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Re: Can't install rpm-packages
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:18:44PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 19:11, Eckehardt Luhm wrote:
> > Oh wow... shame on me, a typical case of RTFM. I found the problem. The
> > path from which I tried to install the rpm's was mounted in textmode.
> > Mounted in binary I can install rpm's without any trouble. I wasn't
> > aware that rpm isn't able to distinguish between binaryfiles and textfiles.
>
> Thats a bug in the RPM package, not a bug in your expectations ;].
Oops. I'll fix this in the next release.
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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
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