On Mar 25, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Attila Csipa wrote: > Warning. Agitated rant ahead. > > > In a moment of Friday afternoon boredom following a tweet about a certain > competition I decided to check out the state of the 'official' offering and > got the Linux install from > http://appdeveloper.intel.com/en-us/meego-sdk-suite. Smallish thing, an > installer I think to myself, okay... Are you sure ? Of course I'm sure. It > says it wants sudo and stuff... well, okay, I would have preferred to do the > apt-getting myself if that's what it does anyway... I know, what kind of > idiot sudos some random installer from the Internet... Well, I did happen to > have a previous install on my otherwise bog-standard Lucid hack-machine and > the installer happily offers to remove 6-7 packages from that. Says continue > with existing not recommended, well, okay, then proceed with remove... And > yes, I know, that's a double fail, I asked for it (cue laugh). As it turns > out, the eager beaver installer apt-get bloody *force* removed pretty much > all of my Kubuntu install, all the way down to kdm. WTF ? B ut you said just 6-7 packages... (haha, sucker !). But a fail is a fail only if you don't learn from it, so let's see what we can learn from this incident (apart from saying 'no thanks' to stupid sudo-requiring installers even if they come from official sources). Checking out the installer script you can see what caused the meltdown: > > echo " MeeGo SDK components found." > echo $PKGS > setFontColor "red" > echo -e " The following packages are installed and will be uninstalled\n" \ > "prior to installing the MeeGo SDK:" > echo " $PKGS" > setFontColor "blue" > echo -e " Would you like to uninstall all previously " \ > "installed MeeGo SDK components now?\n" \ > "\t(u)ninstall now\n" \ > "\t(s)kip uninstall and proceed (not recommended)\n" \ > "\t(e)xit installation" > read -p " Select option (u/s/e): " > setFontColor "default" > if [ "$REPLY" == "u" ] && [ "$REPLY" != "U" ]; then > if [ "$OS" == "Ubuntu" ]; then > apt-get autoremove -y $PKGS \ (is this safe / necessary ?) > > I don't know who asked that there, but let me answer. I don't know if it's > necessary, but it's VERY not safe (I'll refrain from using derogatory terms > this time). You display the packages YOU want to uninstall and then tell apt > to remove whatever IT thinks is right (along with, you know, dependencies). > What the frack happened to apt-get --just-print (dry-run) and then proceeding > ? And I thought the QtSDK is sometimes a bit rough around the edges and > people are sometimes too heavy criticizing error-prone SDK setups... but > that's peanuts compared to this monster-fail, seeing apt kill your install > was not a pleasant sight (now I know how people accidentlaly typing rm -rf / > feel). Not. Frackin'. Funny. At. All. Sorry about the agitated mail, now I > have the weekend fun of a devel machine to setup, instead of doing something > productive like the initial idea from an hour ago of publishing something to > AppUp developer challenge by using the official tools in the process. I guess > yo u can call that learning the hard way. End of rant. And have a nice day. >
I'm looking into this now to get that installer pulled off of the website and fixed. Dawn _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
