I am installing matterhorn 1.2 on centos 6. I am trying to build the
3rd party tools and noticed some very bad behavior. First it tries to
use a non existent mirror and second it tries to download packages for
centos 5.
I figured ok, no big deal I'll try the alternate method, which is to run
do-all.
This is a gigantic mistake. It downloads specific versions of rpms for
centos 5 and then force installs them. Luckily I caught it before it
could install more than a single package. This is potentially system
damaging and very very terrible behavior.
This doesn't take into account updated packages, dependencies, or in my
case distro! If rpm cannot install something there is often a very good
reason.
At the very least it shouldn't run rpm --force. A better approach would
be to run yum since most if not all of these packages are standard
distro packages. Yum will make sure all of the dependencies are
satisfied and grab the latest packages for my distro from mirrors that
exist.
If that is too difficult, have us install the dependencies ourselves. A
simple list of required packages in the readme would go a long way.
To anyone that is installing matterhorn, do not use the do-all tool!
--
Jon
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