[LINUX5250] Re: spec file

[Steve Fox <drfickle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for the slow response. I've switched to digest mode as I don't
even have an AS/400 sign on anymore.

> Is this the same ncurses problem that Frank Richter reported?  Here's
> a link to his message:
>
> http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250/200205/msg00018.html

That was it!

> If so, I wonder if I shouldn't make a new release now that the fix is
> committed.  This seems like it would affect a lot of people.

This would be good. I'm sure there are a lot of Red Hat 6.x boxes out
there still just running happily for years ;)

> Glib is not required for the 0.16.x branch.  Only for 0.17.

Ok, that's what I was thinking.

> And now that I've done that, I get this:
>
> [root@bcserv4 i386]# ls /usr/local/bin/tn5250
> ls: /usr/local/bin/tn5250: No such file or directory

Stuff installed via RPM is usually put in /usr/bin

> [root@bcserv4 i386]# rpm -i tn5250-0.16.4-1.i386.rpm
> package tn5250-0.16.4-1 is already installed
> [root@bcserv4 i386]# rpm -e tn5250-0.16.4-1.i386.rpm
> error: package tn5250-0.16.4-1.i386.rpm is not installed

rpm -e only uses the package name, tn5250. Granted that's a poor error
message from rpm.

> I figured it out.   The %post target was missing the 'then'.   I
> changed the line from:

Oops :) Good catch.

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Steve Fox
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