Re: Massive abuses of rpm

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:55:23PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> 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.
> 

What's a girl to do? Take everyone who abuses rpm out on the street
and shoot them? Naaa, too much blood to clean up. ;-)

Don't is the best answer.

73 de Jeff

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