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[Jim Holland]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Glenn Steen wrote:

> On 25/08/06, Julian Field <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> > > Jim Holland a écrit :
> > >> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Julian Field wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> That is what I would expect to happen. RPM won't overwrite a file
> > >>> owned by another package unless forced to (which I don't like doing).
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I understand that.  My original question was why once the install.sh
> > >> script experienced a problem with one module it would then fail to
> > >> attempt
> > >> installing the remaining modules.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > Not on my RHEL 4 system.  It tried to install them all.
> >
> > Thankyou for that. I'm not going nuts after all. On everyone else's
> > systems it tries to install them all, it doesn't give up after one
> > failure. It carries on and tries to install the next one.
> >
> I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that Jim is doing
> his install on RH 7.1 ... Somewhat out of date, one might say (even
> with legacy updates:-)

It is also driving me nuts too - not so much by the problem, which I can
cope with, but trying to understand what is going on!  I am totally
baffled.  Even if it is an ancient OS, a bash script shouldn't bomb out if
a command returns a non-zero return code or even fails altogether.  I have
cut out the loop itself and run it without the rpm command, and then it
works fine, going through each package and making appropriate comments.

I will let people know if I ever manage to get to the bottom of it.  For 
now it is a bit like a crossword puzzle that you can't finish but keep 
going back to.

Regards

Jim Holland
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