[2533] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Sal Sucks (he broke the RedHat-Athena 4.2 installation)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Mon Feb 8 15:16:54 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:16:18 -0500
To: svalente@MIT.EDU
Cc: warlord@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199902082008.PAA15289@tick.dimins.com> (message from Salvatore
Valente on Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:08:07 -0500)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Hi. I wrote:
Please don't take this the wrong way: ... [expletive deleteed]
I just wanted to see what it felt like to send rude email. It turns
out it felt about as bad as I thought it would feel, so I won't do it
again. Sorry.
Anyway, here's what happened: Someone updated the packages on
sipb-nfs. I don't know or care who. But the XFree86-devel package
was corrupted. A week or two ago, a user came into the sipb office
when I happened to be there and said that the install was failing on
XFree86-devel. So I ftp'd a new copy of the package and put it in the
updates directory and on the server. I did non re-run "make server"
or rebuild the hdlist file because I did not, in theory, change the
version/revision of any file on the server. The hdlist file caches
info from all the .spec files in all the packages on the server, and I
assumed that the .spec file in the corrupted XFree86-devel package
would be the same as that in the good XFree86 package. I guess it
wasn't. I guess the .spec file was corrupted in the corrupted
package. Sorry I didn't notice that, and thanks for fixing it.
Sal.
P.S. Like I said, I apologize for my previous message; I will never
again send a rude message to linux-dev, and I hope others will do the
same.
