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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 10:02:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: rmp core dumps
To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>,
        "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit.haase@t-online.de>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
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This is off topic for this list.  You should look for links to email help at
http://cygwin.cjb.net which is not related to Cygwin other than supplying
supported packages by some external porter.

Cheers,
Earnie.

--- Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I wanted to install add on software using rpm format.
> 
> I followed the instructions under http://cygwin.cjb.net/,
> downloaded and installed the rpm 3.0.6 binary using
> cd /; tar xvzf ...
> 
> Did a rpm --initdb
> 
> Now after trying to install the forst package, rpm complains
> about the following and core dumps:
> 
> 
> andreas@AKLEMM ~
> $ rpm -i /dos/software/cygwin/mktemp-1.5-1.i386-cygwin.rpm
> failed to open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
> assertion "fd && fd->magic == FDMAGIC" failed: file "rpmio.c", line 428
>       0 [sig] rpm 792 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to rpm.exe.stackdump
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> Any idea why ? Or is perhaps rpm not recommended ?
> 
> 	Andreas ///
> 
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