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The message below contains full, high-test, unadulterated strong
opinions.
The are of the quality and standard we at KPLUG have grown accustomed
to and expect -- nay, DEMAND -- from our membership.
The best part is, every single one of us has them, and most of us
aren't ashamed to share them!
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On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Man, I'd be afraid to let you run a software development group.
We'd probably call you either the Code Nazi or the Build Nazi. And
we'd love you for it, and cry if you threatened to leave, because
you'd make sure that:
If you are developing software, you have to *know* your dependency
chain. Choosing a dependency of "RedHat Enterprise Linux 4" gets
you in massive trouble when something breaks.
What caused subversion to break? Was it an upgrade to libc?
libssh? subversion? The filesystem? Permissions? etc.
Even as a sysadmin, I cannot tell you how many times we've run into
stupid shit like that. All of the stupid oddball problems have been
on RHEL, too, primarily because our Sun hardware was so out of date,
our support contracts had been up for a while, and we didn't have
budget to do much else than utilize the Dell servers we had on hand.
I'm still trying to find time to steal one of the Dells to see how
Solaris 10 likes them.
We've had to completely restructure our cfengine .../inputs and .../
files directories, because, ooh, the new cfengine package stopped
following symlinks in .../inputs even if we explicitly told it to.
And if we back-revved to the old version, the problem persisted.
This was post-RHEL-update (from 4.1 plus patches to 4.2), so we were
stuck, and had no idea where the problem came from. We ended up
having to work around the problem instead of fixing the problem.
Very frustrating.
Just felt like sharing from afield.
Gregory
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