Re: [MiNT] SSH RPM?

[Noah silva <nsilva@sparcy.atariuniverse.com>]

Hi again,

I havn't had much of a chance to experiment with the RPMs, and probably
won't for a while, as I am leaving in a few days for Japan ;<

I did notice that rpm2cpio was giving header errors, so I thought I might
have corrupted RPMs.  Because of this, I downloaded the entire set of
RPMs to my own unix server.  If you would like to list it as a mirror, you
may.  The address is:

ftp://sparcy.atariuniverse.com/pub/atari/sparemint

(there is also a lot of other atari related stuff on there).

Thanks,
   noah silva

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Guido Flohr wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:48:40PM -0500, Noah silva wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I remembered reading on the sparemint page that RPM can install from URL,
> > so I tried that.
> > Now I think I have run into some config problem probably.  I should
> > hopefully be able to read the FAQ.MiNT more carefully and discover the
> > problem.
> > 
> > monolith:~#rpm -ivh
> > http://wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de/sparemint/RPMS/m68kmint/
> > sudo-1.5.9p1-1.m68kmint.rpm
> > Retrieving
> > http://wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de/sparemint/RPMS/m68kmint/sudo-1.5.
> > 9p1-1.m68kmint.rpm
> > sudo                        #########unpacking of archive failed on file
> > /usr/bi
> > n/sudo: cpio: read failed - OK
> > monolith:~# 
> 
> Try a 
> 
> # touch /etc/mnttab
> 
> RPM needs this file, even if empty.  Sorry, forgot to tell you.
> 
> If that fails please post here the output of
> 
> 	find / -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -ld {} \;
> 
> resp. "ls -l /" whichever gives more information.
> 
> Maybe you can also ls -ld the directories /var/tmp and /var/lib/rpm.
> 
> BTW, have you ever installed any package? If not you will most certainly
> fail because rpm needs a bare minimum of packages like bash, info and so
> on.  Without them you will continue to have problems.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Guido
> 
>