In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:21:09AM -0800
Tony Alfrey wrote: % On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:54 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % > Tony Alfrey wrote: % <snip> % > % (how do you know so much about this stuff??) % > % > I make my living knowing this stuff. % % But I suppose this is inherently UNIX knowledge, not Linux specific? Yes and no. Dynamic linking is OS-neutral. I happen to know how it happens on *NIXen pretty well. % I do not really know what it does, I just did it because I've seen it % recommended many times in the context of making rpms install cleanly, % and no one ever seemed to indicate that it did any damage. It doesn't hurt, but unless you get a "free page corrupt" message from rpm or have upgraded a lot of RPMs, you get little or on benefit from it. % I will need to one day learn about these details; i.e. "indicies". RPM uses Berkeley DB format databases, which in turn use indices (indexes or, more colloquially, indexen ;-) ) to perform high-speed data operations. Most databases use indices for this purpose. Unless you're a real gear head and want to know about btrees, hash tables, hash functions, and the link, you don't need to know the guts of how RPM does its job. I dare say you don't want to know. I'm must perverse and read the source code. Of course, I wrote about using Berkeley DB, too, but that's beside the point. % > . . . . Or, I'm smokin' dope % > because I no longer use or have installed OpenLinux. % % Really???? What are you running?? A heavily modified Slackware box, RH 7.2 on a crash test dummy, and an a post-natal LFS partition. There's a BSD box in there somewhere, too, just for yucks. % > Thanks for your time explaining these things! Ayup. Kurt -- Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
