Re: Developer Behavior
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
>On Wednesday 10 January 2001 03:23, Branden Robinson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:34:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
>> > 1) This situation does not stop a running machine from working, it will
>> > only stop it from booting.
>>
>> Oh, well, as long as THAT'S all it is...
>
>The thing is that a machine that can't load the correct kernel can be easily
>fixed, just use another machine to dd a kernel to a floppy.
>
>A machine which boots up but which has broken keyboard mapping or broken NSS
>is much more effort to fix.
>
>Also if you have something like NSS break on you then you can logout and then
>when you realise that you've done the wrong thing it's too late, you're
>machine is stuffed because you can't login as root again! If your lilo.conf
>is wrong then you have between now and your next reboot to fix it.
Of course, the .conf in lilo.conf implies that packages really shouldn't
futz with it without warning. I really don't remember a exception in
policy for things that are correctable before next reboot.
>
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