Look, I don't care to see how much of an ass the universe can be about trying to solve specific Linux distribution problems, hence the "geekness" factor means jackshi* to me. Two people on this list did give a little bit of an idea where to find an answer, and I appreciate that, but I found it by searching Google. What Redhat needs to is a simple, easy to use place where people do not have to spend hours wading through a mailing list or spending wasted hours searching Google (read: I have more important things to do with my day than spend 6+ hours trying to find out how to properly rebuild an RPM database) to find answers to common problems such as RPM. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 9:16 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fix Broken RPM System? Ryan R. La Mothe wrote: > Who would you send it to in order to add the information to an online FAQ that is accessible without searching a mailing list? That is the person I want to talk to (and send the information on RPM database recover to). Thanks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of slim > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 5:03 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: RE: Fix Broken RPM System? > > > On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 04:25, Ryan R. La Mothe wrote: > >>That's interesting. I just deleted the damn file. >> >>Thank you. I'm not going to buy that after all of these years, a list of the most common types of RPM troubleshooting solutions isn't available somewhere, production quality or not. >> >> >> > > <snip> And you would have those on this list believe that those in search of a solution to their problem would be better served by having to read through page after page after page of a FAQ than by kickin' back while their computer searched this mailing list for an answer? If that's the case, why not simply: [rj@mavis rj]$ man rpm | lpr and read through the page after page after page of printer output? AAMOF, I just did a quick search of the archives for THIS mailing list (at news://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general) using the Mozilla search tool to find subjects having "rpm" AND "error". The first hit that did not also contain "yum" was a question posted on 27 Nov 2003 02:01:08 GMT. The 2nd hit was a concise and correct answer to the poster's (and your) problem and was posted on 27 Nov 2003 10:43:03 GMT. The point is, it's usually lots easier and less frustrating to use the tools at your disposal than to launch a crusade for some arguably better tool. Refer to the recent discussion ratcheer about fdisk vs &^$#* Disk Druid. Robert -- "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?" -- Lily Tomlin 08:21:00 up 2 days, 16:14, 8 users, load average: 1.42, 1.22, 1.13 One billion seconds ago it was 06:34:20 CDT Thu 10/26/72 Repeat after me: "The primary purpose of any government entity is to employ the unemployable." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
