Topic: looking for working copy of yum.conf for SME 7.3

[SoftDux]

Charlie, you chose to help, I didn't demand for you to help. I actually just wanted the files, simple as that. If you hate people who waste your time, then why do you bother to support them?

[CharlieBrady]

Charlie, you chose to help, I didn't demand for you to help. I actually just wanted the files, simple as that. If you hate people who waste your time, then why do you bother to support them?

I want the software to work perfectly. For that to happen, people need to report accurately what happens when the software doesn't work correctly.

If you had said "I deleted various files" I would have let somebody else help you. But you are saying "yum update" doesn't work.

[SoftDux]

Charlie, I understand where you're coming from, but being rude to other people isn't professional. There's a reason why I didn't bother with a bug report, since I tried to fix some problems which I thought wasn't related to anything in particular. Doing stuff after 1am in the morning, things tend to go wrong. And plenty people tried to help me, but what get's to me is that people don't really want to help, they rather want to deligate and force their ways of thinking down on everyone. I really just asked for the file for the yum config, it's as simple as that. It didn't need a deep ananlysis why I needed it, without having to reinstall.

Since I only have a 7.2 CD, and upgraded to 7.3 via yum, I didn't want to reinstall and redo everything, it cost me a lot in bandwidth everytime.

No offence, but you're over sensitive about this whole thing

[SoftDux]

Bug submitted:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3987

[raem]

SoftDux

No offence, but you're over sensitive about this whole thing

Quite the opposite Softdux, I think it's you who are being oversensitive.
Charlie has not been rude to you, but has been quite obliging and helpful, and was attempting to resolve possible problems with the base code. You can at least be pleasant and cordial back to him.

Please don't bite the hand that feeds you. You wouldn't be making business out of sme server if it wasn't for the huge amount of development work Charlie has done getting sme server to where it is today. He deserves much more respect than you are giving him.
Please drop the attitude immediately.

[SoftDux]

RayMitchell, it's not the first time I get a negative response from Charlie, whereas other people don't give me negative comments. I can fully understand that this is his "baby" and he's put a lot of effort into getting it where it is today ( I do appreciate that ), but he also needs to understand that each  & every environment (server / PC hardware / combination of installed software / confgurations / useage / internet connectivity / etc ) differs from his, and just cause everything works perfect for him (or anyone else who's hacking the stuff to work), doesn't mean it will work for all. I don't want to "bite the hand that feeds me", but if you look at my posts, you'll most probably see that I'm someone who'll try everything - just to see how it works. And some stuff give problems, even though they're not supposed to. Most of the times it's with 3rd party contribs or addons, which Charlie shouldn't have to worry about, but the original owners / developers / writers / etc.`



P.S. I'm NOT making any more from using SME. If at all, it's making my own life a bit easier with my own personal server. Duo to our IT prices, and internet availability in this country, the SME gateway doesn't work for me as a production system. And I've been told it will never work in a way that I need it to.

[raem]

SoftDux

Since I only have a 7.2 CD, and upgraded to 7.3 via yum, I didn't want to reinstall and redo everything, it cost me a lot in bandwidth everytime.

You should use rsync to download new iso's and save bandwidth.
ie
copy the old iso file to a folder on sme server (with the same name as the file you are going to download)
cd to that folder
then do
rsync --recursive --verbose --archive --partial --progress rsync://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/releases/7/iso/i386/smeserver.iso .

The above rsync command is all on one line, and don't forget the space and dot at the end.
It will only download the changes in the iso file, saving you considerable bandwidth.

[SoftDux]

thanx for the tip. I didn't know I could use rsync on ISO files.