https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227589 suse-beta@cboltz.de changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |martin.lasarsch@novell.com ------- Comment #1 from suse-beta@cboltz.de 2006-12-21 16:40 MST ------- This is indeed caused by the broken ARCHIVES.gz symlink. I just commited the detection of this problem to CVS: -- pin 4 Aug 2006 22:48:19 -0000 1.3 +++ pin 21 Dec 2006 23:32:48 -0000 @@ -235,6 +236,13 @@ if [ -r $GREP_FILE ] ; then true +elif [ -r "$ARC_DIR/ARCHIVES_$USED_VERSION.gz" ] ; then + echo + echo " ${ARC_DIR}ARCHIVES.gz symlink broken!" + echo " Please execute" + echo " ln -sf ${ARC_DIR}ARCHIVES_"$USED_VERSION".gz ${ARC_DIR}ARCHIVES.gz" + echo + exit 1 else echo -e "\n $GREP_FILE not found, copy ARCHIVES.gz from SuSE CD1 (or DVD) to /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES_"$USED_VERSION".gz and execute Martin, do you think we need some more magic here (similar to copy_archives) or is the error message enough? (IMHO: a broken symlink is caused by the user, so he should be able to fix it also ;-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.