>> In http://rpmfind.net <http://rpmfind.net/> I found files relevant for >> Mandrake but not for FC2 which I use. What should I do now? Is it >> safe/ok to use libs compiled for other distributions? Or is there another >> solution? > >What is wrong with the samba-swat package that comes with Fedora? >up2date -i samba-swat >or >yum install samba-swat [<Yigal>] Nothing is wrong, they just don't work for me - see what I got (I have no idea what does it mean): ================================================= root@localhost downloads]# samba-swat bash: samba-swat: command not found [root@localhost downloads]# up2date -i samba-swat http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2 using mirror: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i3 86/os/ http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 using mirror: http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1271, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 799, in main fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1147, in batchRun batch.run() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run self.__findPackagesToUpdate() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/up2dateBatch.py", line 97, in __findPackagesToUpdate plist.addGlobs(self.listOfGlobs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/packageList.py", line 157, in addGlobs availList = rhnPackageInfo.getAvailablePackageList() File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 219, in getAvailablePackageList package_list = availablePackageList( File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnPackageInfo.py", line 153, in availablePackageList progressCallback = progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 112, in doCall ret = apply(method, args, kwargs) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoDirector.py", line 20, in listPackages return self.handlers[channel['type']].listPackages(channel, msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 226, in listPackages msgCallback, progressCallback) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/yumRepo.py", line 201, in listPackages agent = "Up2date %s/Yum" % up2dateUtils.version()) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/urlUtils.py", line 324, in fetchUrl endRange=end) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/urlUtils.py", line 117, in open_resource return opener.open(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 901, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTP, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 886, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection refused')> [root@localhost downloads]# ================================================= > >> Another thing that bother me is why doesn't RPM go and take the needed >> files automatically ? I mean all the information is there: the names, the >> version.. > >That's what yum, up2date, and apt (not playing favorites, did I forget >anyone?) are for. [<Yigal>] so my question is: why doesn't RPM call those functions with the missing files as parameters?
