genhdlist problem

[grendal 0]

I was using this how to : http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10600 to generaate a hdlist bbut ran into this:

 

 

su[steve@localhost steve]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost steve]# genhdlist /home/steve/rpms/

Directory path to parse should be relative at /usr/bin/genhdlist line 63.

[root@localhost steve]#

 

 

so I went to line 63 and it doesn't make sense to me :

 

 

line 63 : grep { m!^/! } @dir and die "Directory path to parse should be relative";

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I should add I'm running mandy 10.

[Steve Scrimpshire 0]

Try

 

genhdlist ./rpms

 

or

 

genhdlist rpms

 

Since you are already in the directory that contains the rpms directory.

[grendal 0]

ok I tried both of thosse and tried not being root all to no avail. I know its probally something I'm overlooking.

[pmpatrick 0]

Try dropping the trailing "/" on rpms, i.e the path should be:

 

/home/steve/rpms

[grendal 0]

I got it to work by adding this option : --dest so it looked like this :

 

genhdlist --dest /home/steve/rpms