Interesting errors in Dell packages

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:15:46AM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > 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
> > :).
> > 
> 
> Actually, what is needed is:
> 
> Requires(post): grep perl coreutils
> Requires(postun): perl

Thanks for the report. (and the suggested patch!)

I'll get these updated.
--
Michael