Re: EMC lists

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Panu Matilainen wrote:

> Uh. Funny how almost all these "yes we support linux" RPM's from various
> companies are utterly, horribly broken "put tarball into /tmp and
> extract on %post" thingies.
>  

I expect it's because that's the easiest thing to do.   Someone has a 
generic installation mechanism so wrapping it in an RPM and have %post 
do the actual installation is the easiest thing to do.   That and the 
tendency to give installation to the new guy who doesn't know much about 
anything yet because "installation is easy".

Getting the RPMs right is relatively easy provided that you've got the 
experience and the skills needed to fix up the build process in the 
first place.   The sooner the managers responsible for assigning the 
installation process to the new guy realise that they need to assign to 
more experienced people, the better.

There, I've got that off my chest.

jch