Yum did it again

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:29, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 10:11 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> rpm had been installed & thereby satisfy all the rpm dependencies
>> that are false negatives when we put in a tarball to scratch an
>> itch in a broken distro.  Like the cups in FC2 was a fscking
>> disaster. And it had 2 security related updates that didn't fix
>> the kde crash, I tried them both.
>
>Where are the bug reports about CUPS killing KDE?  We used FC2
>throughout its life time with cups and some users on KDE.  Lots and
> lots of printing every single day, no problems.  I seriously wonder
> if your KDE print issues weren't due to other franken-distro fun.

They are not in bugzilla if thats what you are asking, see my previous 
msg about bugzilla and the advil sized headache I get everytime I try 
to enter a bug report.

But there was certainly a lot of noise about it on the fedora-list at 
the time indicating I wasn't alone.  And it _was_ a known problem on 
the cups mailing list.  Updateing cups-1.1.17 via a tarball build to 
1.1.19 fixed it right up, currently runing 1.1.23 via tarball build 
here now.  kde is also at 3.3.0, built with konstruct and installed 
in root since I'm the only user of this machine.  Odd maybe, but it 
works very well indeed.  I'm on the kde mailing lists and I don't 
have 99% of the troubles I see being reported on those lists.  Call 
it a franken-distro if you like, but AFAIAC I'm just fixing things 
that were broken from the gitgo with FC2, like printing.  Stuff that 
should have Just Worked(TM).

The fact that it never made bugzilla, and even worked in some cases is 
2 seperate items.  See my last msg for my feelings re bugzilla.  The 
fact that it worked for some might be because they installed from 
scratch.  I didn't, and don't, want to lose my archives, 3 GB of 
music I'd have to rerip, and 20GB of photos I'll have to suck back 
out of amanda to recover.  Those are pretty good reasons to just 
update.

And the FC4 install just lied to me.  On that 'sacrificial box' it 
said I could fine tune its automatic disk config, but it went right 
ahead and formatted the drive and FC4 is about half installed without 
ever showing me what it did to /dev/hdb's 46GB.  Where is /swap for 
instance, which I don't want on the same spindle as the rest of the 
system just to keep from thrashing the seeks.  Apparently I won't 
know till I reboot and do a df.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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