On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:41:26AM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > > Now you're threatening to expel me from the community? For posting notes on > workarounds to get a useful package to work? What's this about? Ganglia's > working fine for me.
I'm honored that you think I have that much sway in this
community that I would be able to expel you from it. The
reality, however, is quite different. I don't speak for the
project, nor do I speak for the community as a whole; I have
enough difficulty speaking for myself.
My issues were your building from native source doing the
standard three-step; it's wrong to do so in an rpm-managed
distro.
> My claims? The project's own documents describe this stuff. You saw no
> conflicts? Great. Not every bug shows up on every box. You believe one
> instance of not seeing a bug means no on else will? That's Microsoft-style
> quality control.
Yes, *claims*. You've provided no evidence except your claims
that it didn't work. And please understand that I said it
worked *for me* and that *I* didn't see a conflict. I never
said it wasn't an issue for others. Had I noticed a problem I'd
also have taken the time to document such to the parties
responsible, including this mailing list.
> Sorry. If that's confusion, I got it from instructions (several sets of
> them) out on the web for installing Ganglia from EPEL, which referred to it
> as a Fedora repository.
Yep, confusion. You do, I hope, realize that EL and the
offspring of EL including CentOS are based on Fedora? This
makes Fedora the test base for future EL cuts. EPEL is just a
3rd party repo providing (mostly) Fedora kit rebuilt for EL use
in CentOS, SL, etc.
> I said I've been a Linux sysadmin since '93. I've been in the industry since
> '82. Thanks for mistaking me for a youngster though!
That's nice. With an illustrious background such as yours I'd
expect less argument over the merits of SRPMs vs native builds
and a better understanding of EPEL's role.
John
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Most people hate the idea of evolution because they realize that if it were
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