OSMA 5 on Fedora Core 4

[Colin Schuster]

One could argue the purpose of RPM is also to do these types of checks in
order to prevent you from installing software that might do more harm than
good on a particular machine - like cause a core dump and bring the machine
down.


> Actually, I'm not running it.  The RPM seems to be trying to decide
> whether my computer is worthy enough to have its files installed on, rather
> than just installing the files.  What I would like to know is: why is it
> doing this?  I don't understand how the fact that the software will not do
> anything useful on my particular hardware has resulted in an RPM which
> throws up an error when there is no problem installing the RPM into the
> filesystem.  That's the purpose of the RPM; not to try and determine whether
> the software in it will work.  The software will do that itself.  There's no
> logic to this, unless I'm missing something.  Am I missing something?
>
> Robert
>
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> 0117 92 22494
> Analyst Programmer
> Children and Young People's Services IT
> Bristol City Council
>
>
> >>> <Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com> 05/09/2006 18:53:26 >>>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
> > [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Robert Ham
> > The question still stands, though; why is this script
> > breaking things deliberately, and unnecessarily?
>
> You are running OMSA on a machine that this software was not designed or
> tested to run on.
> --
> Michael
>
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