[WBEL-devel] rhn-applet Stuck?

[Kevin Ediger]

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I agree. I noticed that whitebox-release already includes the file 
/etc/redhat-release. What is missing is the 'Provides: redhat-release' in 
the SPEC file.

rhn-applet tries to look up the version number of the _package_ named 
redhat-release to see if the rhn-applet cache is valid. Adding the Provides 
directive won't fix this. But then again, Fedora seems to be working fine, 
so maybe this change is good enough.

I've included a patch for the whitebox-release spec file. If this patch is 
used, my previous rhn-applet patch is unecessary (stick with the updated 
Fedora rhn-applet package 2.1.4-3).

It gives the following results:

$ rpm -q whitebox-release rhn-applet
whitebox-release-3.0-4
rhn-applet-2.1.4-3
$ rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release --qf "%{VERSION}\n"
3.0


-Kevin

William Hooper wrote:
> After taking another look at my Fedora machine, a "cleaner" solution might
> be to just have whitebox-release provide "redhat-release".  For example:
> 
> [whooper@butters whooper]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
> [whooper@butters whooper]$ rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release
> fedora-release-1-3
> [whooper@butters whooper]$
> 
> This is most likely why it slipped through to begin with, because the
> check for redhat-release succeeds with Fedora Core.
> 

-- 
Kevin Ediger
Engineering Group Leader, Software
LI-COR, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
kediger@licor.com

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--- whitebox-release.spec-orig	2003-12-14 22:37:05.000000000 -0600
+++ whitebox-release.spec	2003-12-23 08:45:11.000000000 -0600
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 Summary: White Box Enterprise Linux release file
 Name: whitebox-release
 Version: %{real_release_version}
-Release: 3
+Release: 4
 Copyright: GPL
 Group: System Environment/Base
 Source: whitebox-release-%{builtin_release_version}-i386.tar.gz
 Obsoletes: redhat-release rawhide-release redhat-release-as redhat-release-es redhat-release-ws redhat-release-de
+Provides: redhat-release
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/whitebox-release-root
 ExclusiveArch: i386
 

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