Updated RPM - flash-plugin-6.0.79-2

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Warren Togami wrote:
> >
> > > http://macromedia.mplug.org
> > > flash-plugin-6.0.79-2
> > >
> > > There are NO CHANGES to the plugin binaries themselves.  They are the
> > > same binaries released during March 2003.  This package update is only
> > > improvements to the installer in order to reduce support issues.
> > >
> > > Please configure your apt, yum, up2date, or urpmi tools to automatically
> > > check for updates of flash-plugin.  Details at the website above.
> >
> > I added
> >
> >   apt macromedia http://ruslug.rutgers.edu/macromedia/apt fedora/1 macromedia
> >
> > to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.  When I run up2date to install, it finds
> > the repository and the package correctly, but hangs during the dependency
> > resolution step.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>
> The story continues:
>
> I installed separately the depedency compat-libstdc++ and then the install
> of flash-plugin got past the dependency check, but failed on the
> signature.  So I installed with up2date --nosig and it worked.
>
> Later I saw a reference to missing GPG keys in rpm, so I added the key
> with rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-1/RPM-GPG-KEY.  That
> seemed to go okay, so to test, I did rpm -e flash-plugin and then tried to
> up2date flash-plugin again and it now hangs on "Fetching rpm headers...",
> and CPU goes to 99%.  Ctrl-C doesn't kill it either, I need to Ctrl-Z and
> then kill -9.
>
> Packages from the default repositories (coincidentally all yum) seem to
> work.

Deleting /var/spool/up2date/*macromedia* allowed the install to continue.
The package really is unsigned, so the --nosig option to up2date is
required.

Should the hangup be in bugzilla?  Thanks.

-- 
		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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