Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. I always found that handy, and am disappointed that just after installing 9.3, that no longer works in my mc. It appears to open but no files. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 7:47 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. I always found that handy, and am disappointed that just after installing 9.3, that no longer works in my mc. It appears to open but no files.
Not sure if I understand correctly, but mc on 9.3 is showing the dirlist of the files that are in the RPM (plus all the spec info). Is that what you mean? I don't recall it ever showing the actual files themselves, just the dirlist. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 7:47 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. Not sure if I understand correctly, but mc on 9.3 is showing the dirlist of the files that are in the RPM (plus all the spec info). Is that what you mean?
I don't recall it ever showing the actual files themselves, just the dirlist. If by dirlist you mean you see a listing of files when you navigate into an rpm file, that is what I am talking about. You can then select any file and copy or view, for example. Mine is only showing, for example, /INFO, CONTENTS.cpio, HEADER, *INSTALL, *UPGRADE, but no actual files. Perhaps this is an x86_64 buglet. What arch do you use? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 8:24 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 7:47 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3.
Not sure if I understand correctly, but mc on 9.3 is showing the dirlist of the files that are in the RPM (plus all the spec info). Is that what you mean?
I don't recall it ever showing the actual files themselves, just the dirlist.
If by dirlist you mean you see a listing of files when you navigate into an rpm file, that is what I am talking about. You can then select any file and copy or view, for example. Mine is only showing, for example, /INFO, CONTENTS.cpio, HEADER, *INSTALL, *UPGRADE, but no actual files. Perhaps this is an x86_64 buglet. What arch do you use?
9.3 x86_64. I see the dirlist but I can't select/view any of the files. Tried on both source and binary RPM's, no difference. I've run 9.1, 9.2 and now 9.3 on this box and I have to be honest here, I don't recall ever being able to do that. Sounds like a great feature though. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 8:24 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 7:47 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3.
Not sure if I understand correctly, but mc on 9.3 is showing the dirlist of the files that are in the RPM (plus all the spec info). Is that what you mean?
I don't recall it ever showing the actual files themselves, just the dirlist.
If by dirlist you mean you see a listing of files when you navigate into an rpm file, that is what I am talking about. You can then select any file and copy or view, for example. Mine is only showing, for example, /INFO, CONTENTS.cpio, HEADER, *INSTALL, *UPGRADE, but no actual files. Perhaps this is an x86_64 buglet. What arch do you use?
I just cracked open the admin manual, page 138 clearly describes what you are talking about and I can confirm it is not working what way here. When I view an RPM with MC, the f3 key is the quit key, not the view header key as stated in the manual. Clearly, something is broken..... Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default x86_64
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:24:50PM -0500, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
If by dirlist you mean you see a listing of files when you navigate into an rpm file, that is what I am talking about. You can then select any file and copy or view, for example. Mine is only showing, for example, /INFO, CONTENTS.cpio, HEADER, *INSTALL, *UPGRADE, but no actual files.
Joe, what happens if you press Enter key on CONTENTS.cpio file? I remember there was a change in rpm/mc couple years ago when mc stopped showing actual files in rpm and required extra dip into CONTENTS.cpio to see files inside rpm. Then it changed back, don't remember exactly when. -Kastus
Kastus wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:24:50PM -0500, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Mine is only showing, for example, /INFO, CONTENTS.cpio, HEADER, *INSTALL, *UPGRADE, but no actual files.
Joe, what happens if you press Enter key on CONTENTS.cpio file?
I remember there was a change in rpm/mc couple years ago when mc stopped showing actual files in rpm and required extra dip into CONTENTS.cpio to see files inside rpm. Then it changed back, don't remember exactly when. Bingo Kastus. I didn't even suspect that one since CONTENTS.cpio said it was 0 size. Thanks a lot, now on to finish polishing off my 9.3. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. I always found that handy, and am disappointed that just after installing 9.3, that no longer works in my mc. It appears to open but no files.
I don't seem to have that problem. I can see all the files within an RPM without any problems on SuSE 9.3. -- Regards, Graham Smith
On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:28, Graham Smith wrote:
On Wed, 18 May 2005 12:47, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. I always found that handy, and am disappointed that just after installing 9.3, that no longer works in my mc. It appears to open but no files.
I don't seem to have that problem. I can see all the files within an RPM without any problems on SuSE 9.3.
I'm using the 32 bit version although it is a AMD 64 processor. -- Regards, Graham Smith
The Tuesday 2005-05-17 at 21:47 -0500, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. I always found that handy, and am disappointed that just after installing 9.3, that no longer works in my mc. It appears to open but no files.
You just have to [enter] on the 'CONTENTS.cpio' file (archive). You will see the full file tree of the rpm payload. Previously, you could do both things; but I noticed that if I copied a bunch of files to somewhere it was very very slow. However, if I opened the cpio archive, it was fast enough. It seems the just droped the tree direct suport, and force you to go the cpio way, that works better. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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