Re: User Poll

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 19:19, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:56:56PM -0400, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> > If you can make the 1011 snapshot traceback, is there ANY CHANCE you
> > could give me ssh access for a while to play with it? 
> 
> FWIW, I've given Hunter Matthews SSH access to a machine with the
> traceback problem.

And the fix is on that box. 

Ok, looks like any 6.2 tree would fail, dirty or not.

Why? Because everyone with 6.2 tends to have all the redhat packages in
their tree, and redhats gtk+10 package returns None for some of the
obsolete data.

<sigh>

I've left the fixed channel.py on that box, and put new snapshots in the
user directory I had access to.

Everyone else who's had ANY trouble with 1011 snapshot should go get the
new snapshot from the ftp server, and PLEASE try it.

There have been several complaints about various problems in the docs -
I'm editing docs right now as fast as I can go. To summarize:

1. Early development versions of 1.3 said not to use apache for anything
but current. This was fixed early on, but I guess we should have been
more specific in the docs when that status changed. To make up2date
work, I have to take over the '/XMLRPC' and '/APPLET' URLs (and any urls
off of them.) Other than those two, you can use that apache instance for
anything you want. 

I use it to do kickstarts and for internal docs.

2. Some people have said they resisted 1.4.x because they didn't want to
have to configure apache. 

You add ONE line to the config file that redhat ships. just ONE.

You need to fill out the current.conf file and run several cadmin
commands,  but as far as configuring apache goes, I dare anyone to come
up with a simpler way to do it.

rpm -Uvh current apache mod_python mod_ssl
edit /etc/current/current.conf
cadmin create_certificate
cadmin create_apache_config
edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf 
    and ADD ONE LINE 

Other than creating the channels (which you were all used to in 1.0.x)
thats IT. The one line you add is in the comments in the file created by
cadmin create_apache_config. You stick it ANYWHERE.

Please tell me what more I can do to make that process easier. I will
not write any code ever that modifies some other packages config file.

I do have one user who doesn't use apache as their web server, and
doesn't want to have to support both apache and the one their used to. I
sympathize with that position, but I'm not sure what I can do. As far as
I know, only apache has something like mod_python. Current wouldn't work
very well as a CGI script.

3. There's some confusion in the docs about how many channels a single
server can deal with. Every os version/release and arch COMBINATION must
be different.

So having 6.2-i386, 7.0-sparc, 7.1-alpha, 7.1-i386, 7.2-i386 etc etc 
is all allowed. 

You can't have two channels that both serve 7.2 on i386. (Like
redhat-stock-7.2-i386 and redhat-beowulf-7.2-i386) 

I'd like to say a big 

THANK YOU BARRY

for letting me have access to the box. 

If any of you can make the new snapshot die, please tell us.


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