Hey, I’ve got a weird idea: When a beta customer, who is using build 30, starts complaining about the same problem we’ve spend the last 15 builds trying to fix, maybe instead of pulling several of us off our work to look to see if we can manually enter stuff into their database to kluge it up to get them going again, you should update them to build 45? Just a suggestion.
Category: Rant
Can I just digress for a moment?
I just want to say that I HATE HATE HATE rpm and it’s fucking broken dependency checking?
At work, we use apt-rpm so that we have a hope in hell of dependencies being satisfied when we install stuff. Our previous build of our software uses the RHEL 4.3 default version of dnotify, 0.17.2-1, but our current build needs a version we got from somewhere else, which is version 0.18.0-1. So I dutifully changed the
Requires: dnotify
to
Requires: dnotify >= 0.18
But it doesn’t matter whether I install it using “rpm -Uvh foo” or “apt-get install foo”, it happily installs the latest version of our stuff without complaining about unmet dependencies or attempting to upgrade dnotify. WTF? I tried with “0.18”, “0.18.0” and “0.18.0-1”, all with no effect.
I did verify with “rpm -q -provides” and “rpm -q -requires” that the version numbers internal to the rpms in question agree with the file name versions and the dependencies made it into the rpm. So it’s not a case of a file “dnotify-0.18.0-1.rpm” that internally thinks it’s dnotify version 0.01 or something stupid like that. It’s just fucking rpm being fucking brain dead.
Was it the upgrade, or is the hardware dying?
My home server crashed again last night, sometime around 4:30am. The nightly backup either failed or didn’t run at all, but I can’t tell where it was in the process because I didn’t get any email from the cron.daily run.
Remind me again why I upgraded to Fedora 7?
Not something I expected to see in my messages log
Jun 19 09:12:54 allhats atd[31131]: Open of jobfile failed: Success
WTF?
Pining for the fiords
After letting it cool down for a while, I managed to boot the computer. The internal backup drive was pretty hosed, so I had to mkfs.ext3 it and I’m doing a full backup again. Pretty soon I’d like to upgrade the machine to Fedora Core 7. I’ve got the DVD burned, so maybe I’ll give it a try tomorrow.