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  • From: seth AT swoolley.homeip.net
  • To: Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Going back to Gentoo
  • Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:04:36 -0700

openoffice-bin is in z-rejected -- not officially supported unless you
start providing patches. :) Put it this way -- we don't care if you
don't either.

Seth

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 09:01:07AM +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:14:14 -0500 (CDT)
> schrieb Kevin Monceaux <Kevin AT RawFedDogs.net>:
>
> > It does sound like cleanse does a more thorough job.
>
> Indeed. It checks every installed file via checksum and runs ldd
> on everything to see if the libraries are OK.
> Cleanse is actually a good burn-in test for your machine -- at least
> I was able to repeatedly show corrupted RAM/controller/whatever with
> cleanse on a server box I was installing. The compiles went fine, but
> cleanse stressed it enough to give up. I'm glad now that it prevented
> me from putting important services onto that broken box;-)
> The next server was fine with cleanse and stable in operation (until
> the company providing it has been closed down).
>
> > Now if it would just
> > stop trying to fix the openoffice-bin package I installed that's wasn't
> > broken or trying to fix tetex because I updated a map file to add some
> > fonts I installed ...
>
> That's bugs. Manpower is the key here -- one can mark such files as volatile
> and cleanse won't complain. But one has to do that with the spells...
> Not so sure about openoffice, but I guess that could be helped, too.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas.



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