Update error with "dev" package.

[Richard Hally]

Mike Klinke wrote:

>On Friday 03 September 2004 09:47, M A Young wrote:
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>>On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mike Klinke wrote:
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>>>Cannot install the dev package: mounted devfs detected.
>>>error: %pre(dev-3.11-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>>>error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
>>>dev-3.11-1
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>>But there remain interesting questions like how you can uninstall
>>dev, and whether you can actually uninstall it anyway, as a few
>>other packages require the dev package.
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>>	Michael Young
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>According to my /var/cache/yum/development/package directory we've 
>been through a few updates of this package;
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>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3216748 Sep  3 07:56 dev-3.11-1.i386.rpm
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3216570 Sep  1 08:21 dev-3.9.2-1.i386.rpm
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3215706 Aug 27 23:20 dev-3.9.1-1.i386.rpm
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3170751 Aug 26 20:29 dev-3.9-1.i386.rpm
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3167108 Aug  3 23:24 dev-3.8.3-1.i386.rpm
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>so we should have crossed this bridge already.  If I'm not the only 
>one who is seeing this ( Am I ...anyone else ?) then I suspect 
>there's a buglet in the scriptlet.
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>Regards, Mike Klinke
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Yup, I've seen it also!
Richard Hally