Hi,
On 23.10.23 20:25, Marc Baudoin via lpi-examdev wrote:
[...]
A weight of 2 for installations from source code is way too low
because this is the heart and soul of free software (or open
source).
Remembering the days before Linux, system administrators *had* to
build software from source code, having to modify it along the
way because the author used a different kind of UNIX. System
administrators also had to know C and the POSIX API for that.
Since Linux has binary packages, the level of knowledge system
administrators have about their system has dramatically dwindled
and most of them don't understand correctly the basic tools
provided by the system (I often see that about things as simple
as redirects and pipes).
[...]
I agree in this way that today many people who maybe just restart docker
containers call themselves "admins" and don't know anymore how to code
in C. Decades ago every admin wrote tools in C. And I still say to
course participants that they should give C a chance if bash is too
slow. Even if that means that they had to START with C.
But the times changed and today it is not best practice anymore to do
the GNU triathlon. Today we have package managers.
And actually *I* would expect that an admin is able to build a package
(even from scratch) and do necessary patching of C source. Instead of
filling up /usr/local.
Said this I actually don't see LPIC-2 in the role of covering package
builds. ;-) And I'm fine with weight of 2. :-)
sincerely,
Frank
PS: The inventors of UNIX and C were admins. :-)
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