Chatty buggy Rug/SMT

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>>>>> "brunold" == brunold <brunold@no-mx.forums.novell.com> writes:

brunold> Adrian,

>> Sadly, on one of the servers it doesn't appear to work
>> either. Been sitting there for half an hour waiting for the
>> server to return to the prompt.

brunold> if it does not come back sometimes is a result of a corrupt or
brunold> over sized sqlite database of the rug client. The next time you
brunold> see that, check the size "Ls -la /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db". The size
brunold> depends on the services you have added. I would say not bigger
brunold> then 20 or 30MB. The database can be cleaned out by running
brunold> "rug restart --clean" or if it never comes back from such a
brunold> command, it can be deleted. Simply shutdown or kill the rug
brunold> client and delete that file. Once you start the client the next
brunold> time it will be recreated from scratch and hopefully full
brunold> functional. The only thing you loose when deleteing it is the
brunold> bundle and package locks if you used them.

Thanks, I've squirreled that away for next time I get simiar symptoms.

Unfortunately by the time your response was received all four of the
OES2 boxes in that tree had been rebuilt as plain SLES10sp2. New
systems, new rug bugs:

Anyone game to explain this one below, nothing omitted, nothing added,
copy'n'paste straight from the terminal:

zcmdev01:~ # rug --quiet up -y -t patch --skip-interactive

Please confirm this message

N
zcmdev01:~ #

I would have thought that any patch that asks a question would classify
as an interactive patch, that "-y" would answer YES and that --quiet
would be quiet like it says in the fine man page! I entered the "N" as
I had no idea what rug was about to do.

Re-running without the --quiet:

zcmdev01:~ # rug up -y -t patch --skip-interactive
Resolving Dependencies...

The following packages will be installed:
slesp2-xerces-j2 6449-0 (SLES10-SP2-Updates)

xerces-j2 2.7.1-16.7 (SLES10-SP2-Updates)
xerces-j2-2.7.1-16.7.noarch[SLES10-SP2-Updates] needed by \
atom:xerces-j2-2.7.1-16.7.noarch[SLES10-SP2-Updates]

Please confirm this message

Do you accept the license? [y/N]
y

Downloading Packages...
... 100%

Transaction...
... 100%

Transaction Finished
zcmdev01:~ #

Once again I'm asked to "confirm" an invisible license!

brunold> Rainer

Adrian