30 Jan 2007 (updated 30 Jan 2007 at 15:01 UTC)
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badger, perhaps you are in a unique position to explain this
one to me.
why is it that fedora is reinventing all of the
infrastructure that has been available in varying degrees in
debian for ... what... fifteen years, now, and ubuntu for a
couple of years?
and how the bloody hell did anyone either cope or
expect to
get anywhere _before_ such infrastructure existed?
on a different note: i installed a fedora core 6
system last
week, and i am extremely glad that the person whom it was
destined for was happy to take over, as the process of
locating and installing the appropriate software, with yum,
was a complete fuckup.
the kernel version installed was incorrectly
detected by FC6
(it's a P4 2.6ghz system and the version of the kernel
installed was 586 or something which didn't even have
p4-clockmod or cpufreq _in_ it).
search words on yum search are ORed not ANDed, which made
locating cpu freq / power management utilities and the
a working kernel _really_ difficult to track down.
yum itself takes forever to show anything.
the display output is shit as it contains no summary
(apt-cache search + apt-cache show: there's no obvious
equivalent, all i could find was yum search)
i had to pipe the output from yum to a file and
then go
through it manually.
then when i actually located a kernel, i installed
2.6.19
thinking that would work, then discovered that there was a
2.6.18 kernel that would _actually_ work, and got some
bitch-stupid complaint about not being able to downgrade!
what the fuck has a kernel got to do with an
operating
system??
i should be able to put any number of kernels on
WITHOUT
complaint or molly-coddling from some stupid tool.
the whole exercise was a genuine waste of time, and
i spent
several hours earning a grand total of about 15 GBP profit.
i would be better off signing on for unemployment benefit.
p.s. who the bloody hell thought that xml would provide a
good database index for yum?