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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Tobias Marx <tmarx AT digitalprojects.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] dependency on basic tools
  • Date: 26 Sep 2002 21:29:22 -0400

When Bad Things like that happen, the install CD is good for fixing
them.

On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 16:02, Tobias Marx wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've recently run into some troubles after i've accidently choosen the
> wrong optimization (pentium4 instead 3) and reversed (again accidently;
> ok i know i'm stupid :-) ) from devel to stable codex and casted some
> stuff.
> after this total presentation of personal stupidity, some of the most
> important tools on a sgml box wouldn't run anymore: wget was one of
> them!!
> no casting, no summoning anymore!!
> my computer really sat dead on the floor and it took quite some time to
> figure out what happend and how to solve it (ok, some people may have
> fixed it earlier, but hey, what do you expect from a fool like me? ;) ).
> i had to manually download the spells and cast them (i've tried glibc
> (after that df would run again :) ) and openssl and wget worked again
> (maybe there where others in between, i really don't know anymore).
>
> so the question is, shouldn't there be some kind of fallback system, for
> cases like this? some kind of rescue spell, that installs precompiled
> versions of wget, glibc, openssh etc.? everything that would make the
> sourcemage tools work again?
>
> just my two euro cent.
>
> bye,
> Tobias
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