Patrick’s Rants

I just upgraded this server by running yum update. The update was over 150mb. That doesn’t mean that I wasn’t keeping up with my patches - I did manage to get upgraded to Fedora Core 4. Of course it wasn’t without some minor hitches. First I didn’t have a library which caused things to fail partway through. Nothing like looking at a console from across town and the machine is not upgrading. Fortunately there is a tool named rpm2cpio that allows you to unpack an rpm file. In my case it required the installation of libselinux because the developers chose to link to it (and not include that requirement in the rpm file so you can’t tell you need it until you break it)
Of course, with any upgrade there are “hitches”. They also changed the default directories where libraries are stored for php. That meant that libraries weren’t loaded and all my extra php stuff didn’t work. Easy fix.
The next one (so far) is my login for my email. It’s looking for ssl certificates that I haven’t created…. great. Another fix coming up.
Great. Now I’m running the latest and greatest versions - FC4. So let’s see if there is anything else broken