[4420] in testers
Re: Honey, I blew up my Linux box
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jun 3 10:43:03 2000
Message-Id: <200006031442.KAA13214@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jun 2000 01:16:51 EDT."
<200006030516.BAA02910@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 10:42:58 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Sure enough, the afs script in the most recent RPM in afs has this;
> the afs script on my machine doesn't though. It looks like it
> failed to update the afs rpm when it took the update.
Ah, I know why this happened. The athena-afs RPM didn't change
version when it got fixed. You may have other bugs related to
packages not being updated. Strictly speaking, this is okay (we don't
guarantee the automatic integrity of alpha machines), but it's still
unfortunate.
Lesson for the future: on Linux, going to beta should involve a
rebuild of all packages at version 1. (Since this would consume a lot
of space, the version 0 RPMs can be nuked. Nuking the version 0 RPMs
is certainly not worse than overwriting them as far as information
loss.)
Workaround for alpha machines for now:
cd /afs/dev.mit.edu/system/rhlinux
rpm -U --replacepkgs `grep '^athena' control/list-8.4.1`
