CygWin - RPMS --- problems

Aaron J. Grier aaron at frye.com
Wed May 31 19:33:35 UTC 2000


On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 06:08:56AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > bash-2.03$ rpm -i i386-rtems-binutils-2_9_5_0_24-1_i386.rpm
> > failed to stat /dev/st0: No such file or directory
> No idea what this is - /dev/st0 normally is a SCSI tape device - and
> why it should be accessed by rpm.

my guess is that this is the RPM packagers being lazy and using
wildcards in the spec file instead of explicitly naming files...

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  Aaron J. Grier   |   Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR   |   aaron at frye.com
  "The simplistic anthropomorphism which asserts that source code has a
   life separate from its creator or maintainer is the product of one
   too many viewings of Tron."  -- paraphrasing of anonymous post on /.



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