OSMA 5 on Fedora Core 4

[Robert Ham]

Hi,

I administer a PowerEdge 4300 which has Fedora Core 4 installed on it.  I've been trying to get OSMA installed.  Unfortunately, I get this:

[edisroh at genesis RPMS]$ pwd
/home/edisroh/no-backup/omsa5/linux/RPMS
[edisroh at genesis RPMS]$ sudo rpm -ivh srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
srvadmin-deng: not supported on this system (sysid=007C)
error: %pre(srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping srvadmin-deng-5.0.0-463
[edisroh at genesis RPMS]$


I must say, I find this most disturbing.  No software has failed, and yet an error has been raised.  The software has been explicitly designed to fail for a particular class of users.  A decision was made by a person to reduce the operating ability of their software; to purposely break an otherwise unbroken tool.  What reason is there for this insanity?

Yours sincerely,

Robert Ham


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Robert_Ham at bristol-city.gov.uk 
0117 92 22494
Analyst Programmer
Children and Young People's Services IT
Bristol City Council