Re: rpmfind: Error fetching <foo> metadata

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From: Ben Liblit (liblit@cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 17:52:40 EDT


Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Check that you have some space left on /tmp ...

Yes, plenty. You might want to consider switchinh to $TMPDIR or
/var/tmp in the future, though. That directory is less likely to cause
system trauma if it fills up.

> I get a SIGSEGV, ... debugging is on the way.

I just tried this on my other box, and I get a SIGSEGV as well. GDB
shows the point of failure as:

    #0 neededPackageAddResource (pkg=0x0, res=0x819c520) at deps.c:241
    #1 0x804bc65 in lookupRemoteResource (father=0x0,
        resource=0xbfffeb7a "binutils") at rpmfind.c:1043
    #2 0x804c263 in findResource (father=0x0, resource=0xbfffeb7a
        "binutils") at rpmfind.c:1259
    #3 0x804cbbc in main (argc=420, argv=0xbfffe218) at rpmfind.c:1586

> BTW, I REALLY think that you should NOT use --latest but --upgrade

Good advice. Thanks. I take it that "--upgrade" restricts its
attention to only a subset of the distributions? Can you provide some
insight into how this subsetting logic works?


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