From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [72.86.41.184] (account lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com HELO [192.168.201.141]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.10) with ESMTPSA id 1764393 for ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 28 Mar 2021 23:05:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [eCS-ISP] links in the ticket To: eCS ISP Mailing List References: Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Message-ID: <60615211.6030205@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 23:05:37 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 SeaMonkey/2.35 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply 2 of 2: On 03/28/21 09:40 pm, Steven Levine wrote: > In , on 03/28/21 > at 09:52 PM, "Lewis G Rosenthal" said: > > Hi there, > > Typo alert. I meant to type: > > FWIW, the bootstrap required check could be a bit more robust. The > current code only checks for the existance of python.exe and yum.exe, but > the test will pass even if the executables cannot run. > Recall that the bootstrap check is only to ensure that a YUM/RPM subsystem exists. If it does, and something is broken, the bootstrap install has no provision for fixing/removing/replacing/preserving an existing (though broken) \usr tree. Enhancing this feature would actually imply implementing some type of repair facility, which we have heretofore resisted (favoring instead a standalone fix-it tool). If a good argument could be made that this should be part of ANPM's initial run process, I'm sure we'd reconsider, but it would have to be convincing. There is potentially a lot of heavy lifting to be done in this case, unless we wipe and install fresh. Perhaps the wiki needs a new page concerning the nuclear option. I've really tried to avoid the subject, but I guess there are times when the elephant gun approach is simply the shortest distance between the two points (non-functional -> functional). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE, CWTS, EA Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------