RE: EMC lists

["Ken Schroeder \(kschroed\)" <kschroed cisco com>]

I cannot begin to explain the amount of time we have spent re-rpm'ing
EMC's powerpath software. First it was 3.0.5 with 3.0.6 hotfix and now
it is 4.3.0 with 4.3.1 hot fix.  Both hotfix's dependent on the first
RPM. To make matters worse if you upgrade the kernel you have to
re-install the software because the kernel modules.  I don't know how
many of these vendors are getting away with this type of software
deployment.  I guess they've been doing it all along for Solaris and HP
and now providing linux solutions continue their bad habits because it
makes life easier for them instead of doing what is right for the
customer.  --ken
 

-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Thomas Cameron
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:51 PM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: EMC lists

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:04 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 14:50 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:19 -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> > > Hello...
> > 
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > While you're chatting with EMC, please inform them how to create 
> > real RPMs.  We've been escalating their "hot fix" RPMs for months.  
> > They expect you to install their 4.3.1 RPM and then install another 
> > RPM on top of it (with the same name).  Their RPM development 
> > process is horribly broken.  I'm hoping enough customers complaining

> > will get them to fix their crap.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 	- Panu -

AMEN!  I mean, IBM's Blade software "RPM" is just a stinking tarball!
Are they KIDDING???

Amazing.

Thomas

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