[2534] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Sal Sucks (he broke the RedHat-Athena 4.2 installation)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Feb 8 15:35:23 1999
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 08 Feb 1999 15:34:41 -0500
In-Reply-To: Salvatore Valente's message of Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:16:18 -0500
FWIW: I noticed (after I had run 'make server') that there had been
some ~-files in /redhat/4.2/i386/RedHat/base. Had someone modified
the comps-files in-place in the 4.2 install server?
-derek
PS: When I ran 'make server', it failed to update on small-gods.
PPS: I still have not finished the RH-A 5.2 'make server', but I
hopefully will finish it soon.
Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> 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.
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
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