G. Matthew Rice wrote: > (OT: Does anyone think that > building packages is appropriate LPIC-2 material?)
It used to be in there but then at some point we got rid of it. I'm in two minds about this. I can't speak for the RPM side of things, but as far as Debian-style packages are concerned, there are now so many competing ways of actually making packages that it would be difficult to figure out what to concentrate on for the purposes of the exam. These days, few if any people use the low-level tools directly; instead there are various frameworks at different levels of abstraction that will deal with many of the issues one comes across when preparing packages. On an abstract level, it behooves an administrator of Debian-style systems to put their own software into packages just for the sake of neatness. In actual practice, relatively few people will actually go to the trouble. One might argue that by requiring package-building knowledge in LPIC-2, LPI would do system administrators a favour since, having studied package building for their exams, they would presumably consider it less of a nuisance to actually build packages out of their own software in »real life«. On the other hand, this would amount to LPI dictating policy to system administrators via the exam, which I would think is not what the exam is for – the exam should follow »best practices«, not try to force them where they don't actually exist in the field. LPI's method of arriving at exam contents seems to suggest that if package building doesn't show up to an appreciable degree in the JTA, LPI has no business sticking it in just because we like the idea. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
