[packaging] Comment #20: re LSB 4.0 Core beta specification

[Jeff Johnson]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

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> Yuck!
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> Surprisingly enough, it didn't actually work, the
> install bit ended up not interacting after all and
> a bunch of stuff was skipped leaving a broken
> install, with no hints, and no sensible way to initiate
> a repair that I've found, yet.


Permit me to share an exhibit from my "Packaging Hall of Shame".

WARNING: DO NOT RUN THIS LINE OF SCRIPT UNLESS YOU HAVE A BACKUP OF
	/var/lib/rpm

An important online retailer tried to reduce install spewage by
installing a package in an install script wrapper that looked like this:

	rpm -Uvh package*.rpm >&-

Somehow the retailer's bottom line seems unaffected by their
attempts to use rpm to install packages. Mirabile dictu.

73 de Jeff
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