On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alan Olsen wrote:
> 1) When doing an install (say, because the upgrade corrupted the RPM
> database), do *NOT* say "Please wait while formatting disks" when the user
> has specifically told the program not to format any disks! Some sysadmin
> with a weak heart and a fragile system is going to keel-over dead because
> of that message one of these days... (Sure as hell scared a few years off
> of my life!)
I have been unable to upgrade my Mandrake 7.1 system to 7.2 in part
because of this message. The first time I saw it I almost cried, but then
I saw no disk activity and felt that it was safe. Yet, even after that,
there is no "Upgrade" option. Also, it still tried to pick a different
partition scheme, insisting on formating a swap partition. I have it on
CD, so a fixed installation will not help. How do I get the install to NOT
FORMAT MY DISK AND KEEP THE CURRENT PARTITION SCHEME AND DO AN UPGRADE. I
am sorry to capitalize that, but come on. It seems that upgrading is
impossible in 7.2. And why do the reviews never catch these big errors?
>
> 2) If you have an application that creates a log file (say, for example
> "hylafax"), please have the install "touch" the file location so that the
> log rotation program does not keep spitting out warning messages about
> non-existant log files. (Or maybe set the log rotater to actually create
> the file if it does not find it!)
In my /var/log directory I have many files with very long names like
mail.log.1.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz. It seems like the logrotate script has
been broken forever. Either it will create those files. Or it will spit
you out a mail saying that the log doesn't exist like you said. Now this
bug has existed at least since RedHat 5.0. Maybe someday they will fix it.
> 3) Documentation as to what the various security levels do (in detail)
> available from the starting web page.
I think it is there. Maybe not on the starting webpage (what is that?) but
it's definately explained in detail in the user's guide. I have seen
reviews complain about Mandrake's documentation, either being
non-existant, or out-of-date. I think this is in part because they are
French and their English is not up to par sometimes and is hard to read,
mais mon francais n'est pas parfait either. That said, I think the
documentation for this version was one of the things they did right.
--
Sincerely,
David Walluck
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