Strangeness with recent FC5 update

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 11 22:14:05 UTC 2006


Jim Cornette wrote:

>>   
> When viewing the rpms with mc you see two files, one is named *UPDATE 
> and another is called *INSTALL. I figured they were scripts since I have 
> clicked on one or the other to install or update in both rpm and deb 
> formats before to upgrade or install.
> Since you mentioned that they were not scripts, I viewed them with 
> mcedit and only "run this script if updating" and the same words except 
> "installing" included in the other.
> This is my confusion on the assumption that they were scripts.

rpm -ql mc doesnt list either a INSTALL or UPDATE file in my FC5 system. 
They are usually not packaged since it relates to tarball installation 
or upgradation normally. If you see any such files being installed, file 
a bug report.

Rahul




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