On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:20 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > I suspect that it is harder than you suggest. I bought hardware from $OEM > you used to work for just before you left. When I realized that I did not > have the same versions of the $OEM RPMS/SRPMS that came installed on the > machines I requested them from $OEM. It took them 2 weeks to get the > $OEM RPMS/SRPMS that came installed on the machine. The hardest part for > me was convincing $OEM that $OEM RPMS/SRPMS were not on the FC3 cd's they > sent with the machines. They did finally get them to me but I was told they > needed to contact you after you were gone, to get the SRPMS. > > This is not a complaint, $OEM did the right thing and a year later I am very > happy with said hardware. It is just an example of things that are not always > as easy as they seem. The difficulty there was $OEM did not track things for crap. And the workspace I had got rm'd and thus went the SRPMs. It would not have been hard at all if there would have been policy about where to get those rpm/srpms from, a central repository, CVS tracking, etc... -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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