Interesting errors in Dell packages

[Stephen John Smoogen]

One re-occuring error I have been seeing with the LiveCD creation is
the following:


> ^M  Installing: dell-unsupported-repository  ##################### [188/943]/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.71412: line 17: cut: command not found
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.71412: line 17: head: command not found
237,481c242,486

It happens with the following packages:

dell-hw-indep-repository
dell-firmware-repository
fwupdate-repository
dell-unsupported-repository

The problem comes from the following:

FULL_URL=$(grep ^mirrorlist= /etc/yum.repos.d/fwupdate-repository.repo
| cut -d= -f2- | head -n1)

And is caused because the packages do not have a Requires: coreutils
in it which puts them as being installed before cut and head show up
:).

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"