On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:37:25AM -0500, Chris Lumens wrote: > > So I'm trying to find out why David Cantrell decided to make my life > > hell on 2007-09-04 by disabling any possibility of static ip when > > using kickstart and the changelog refers to bug #260621 which I'm > > somehow not allowed to see. > > Nobody decided to make your life hell. Software is complicated, > especially the loader, and fixes sometimes have unintended side > effects. > > The bug in question fixed a problem where anaconda would stop at the > network configuration screen regardless of what command line arguments > are specified. By forcing dhcp whatever appears or not in the kickstart file? David needs more sleep. OTOH, so do I. You can understand that the intent was somewhat unclear. > > So I am supposed to guess why the hell such a change was made how? > > That would be the first step to try to provide a solution acceptable > > by everybody. > > I'd do it like this, given a checkout of the anaconda source: First I'd > do git log and look for the bug number since we're good about putting > the bug numbers in the changelogs. Then I'd get the sha1sum from there > (it's e727238ded39f839b8230e0fef25825815336a68 by the way) and do a git > show with that to see exactly what changed. Which won't tell me *why*, only *what*. I already know what was done, where do you think I got the exact date and bugid from? What I was missing is the *intent*. OG. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
