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Jonathan Felder commented on MH-8471:
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There are so many things wrong with this:
1. As I mentioned before it -breaks- your linux install if you happen to be
running CentOS/RHEL 6 instead of 5.
2. It completely ignores any dependencies that might exist for packages that
depend on the different versions of the packages you are force installing over.
3. It completely ignores any security fixes that might be in place, leaving
your system vulnerable.
4. It makes it impossible to update your system also leaving it vulnerable.
This is an absolute disaster from a system administration standpoint.
As for ubuntu, this is a case of fitting a round peg into a square hole. The
design philosophy for ubuntu is all about having the latest and greatest. If
you're worried about changing software versions, this is not the distro for
you. Likewise Fedora is not the distro for you either. CentOS/RHEL or another
distro where the focus is on stability are much much better choices here.
Alternatively if you have your heart set on ubuntu for whatever reason at least
use ubuntu LTS.
The proper although time consuming solution is to have a repository where
prebuilt versions of the tools and necessary libraries live for a few different
distros. Granted I understand the maintenance of this is probably not feasible.
A more practical answer is to have a very limited subset of systems that are
supported by the tool and to not force install the packages. Again supporting
normal ubuntu or fedora in this regard is absolute madness because the versions
change every 6 months.
Instead list the dependencies and 3rd party tool package versions and allow
sysadmins to take care of this.
> 3rd party tool installer is toxic
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> Key: MH-8471
> URL: http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-8471
> Project: Matterhorn Project
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Contrib Tools
> Affects Versions: 1.2, 1.3
> Reporter: Jonathan Felder
> Assignee: Matjaz Rihtar
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