Massive abuses of rpm

[Nigel Metheringham <Nigel Metheringham dev InTechnology co uk>]

I know this is probably way off-topic, but I don't suppose RH spends
time "educating" (preferably with a large cluebat) some of the vendors
that go in for serious abuses of rpm?

For example, compaq used to have an rpm which hacked all sorts of things
around (including modifying some kernel modules on the fly so they would
load into a modversions enabled kernel even though the version numbers
did not match).

IBM still have binary rpms which contain a single tar.gz file.  The
script part of the rpm unpacks the tar.gz file, compiles some stuff, and
builds it into another rpm (this also consisting of a tar.gz and some
script) - its the nearest thing to an rpm virus I have yet seen.

	Nigel.
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[ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ]
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