question regarding redhat-* applets (redhat-logviewer/redhat-config-services etc)

[Siddharth Toshniwal]

Hi Paul,

Thanks! Your suggestion solved most of my concerns :)

There is a enhancement for the rpm binary packagers though.
up2date does not pick up all dependencies for these applets
and I had to get them manually for some of these packages.
Specifically:

* system-config-users requires libuser.
* system-config-httpd requires 4Suite.

It would be cool if these could be fetched when someone
fetched the appropriate system-config-* packages. Anyways,
for now things seem to be working okay....

cheers,
Siddharth



Paul Bender wrote:

> The redhat-* utilities have been renamed to system-* utilities. For 
> example, redhat-config-services is now system-config-services. If you 
> use rpm to upgrade to the system-config-services rpm, it will remove 
> the redhat-config-services rpm.
>
> Siddharth Toshniwal wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I need some help regarding the redhat applets that feature under
>> "Applications -> System Tools". When I upgraded from Redhat 9
>> to Fedora Core 1 (and recently to Fedora Core 2) using up2date,
>> I got python2.3 as one of the dependancies for some packages.
>> I've installed that (and also have python2.2 on my system).
>>
>> The problem is that the applets in question require python2.2
>> and do not work with the latest python libs since the API version
>> is different or because some other add-on package has got
>> uninstalled when I got the latest rh rpms.
>>
>> Can you please tell me where can I get the RPM upgrades for
>> these utilities so that they function with python 2.3? Or are these
>> binaries given in some package for the Fedora distribution?
>> As of now, I've re-compiled some of these packages from source
>> so that they use python2.3, but there are too many of these (!)
>> So, is there a better way out?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Siddharth.
>>
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