Feedback on MailScanner 4.56.1-1 beta

[Glenn Steen]

On 25/08/06, Jim Holland <mailscanner at mango.zw> wrote:
> 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 Somewhat out of date, one might say (even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
>
Is it perhaps your rpm database that is somewhat corrupt? You could
try an rpm rebuild....:-).
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