[cobalt-users] RE: How To Tell Raq That Package Is Installed

[Ilmars Knipshis <ilmars@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello cobalt-users,

>> Does anybody know how to do it?
>> I had partial Raq3 Update to OS 5.0, which I corrected by hand by
>> installing necessary rpms. Only problem remains that I need to tell
>> the RAQ that this package is installed, because I cannot install
>> next updates. Thanks in advance.

curlcc> I am so sure I answered this the other day, but...
Sorry, did not found..

curlcc> You need to put a 'marker' file in /var/lib/cobalt -- that's how the 
curlcc> RaQ 'knows' what PKGs are installed.

curlcc> The filename should be contained within the "packing_list" file in the 
curlcc> OS Update 5.0 PKG that you said you took apart to manually install 
curlcc> the RPMS.

curlcc> Go to /var/lib/cobalt and do

curlcc> touch RaQ3-en-Update-OS-5.0.md5lst

curlcc> to make the 'marker file'

curlcc> Also, you should read the 'upgrade_me' script from the PKG and make 
curlcc> sure you did all the steps.  There was a lot more to this PKG than 
curlcc> just installing a bunch of RPMS...
Yes, thanks a lot. Script 'upgrade_me' lead me in repair process.
If it's interesting for anybody I can share my solved problem.
In  log file I found that pkg installation was started twice!? In the
way that first procedure was not finished completely, but second
installation procedure began to remove already installed rpm-s before
all things stoped when first process stoped.
Happily it removed only some of them. So I restored by hand the absent
rpm-s.

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Best regards,
 Ilmars