Cacti / RRDTool Fails

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Chris Weyl wrote:

> On 6/27/06, John Thomas <gmane-2006-04-16 at jt-socal.com> wrote:
> > > Updating rrdtools in Dag's repository is failing because of dependancies
> > > I cannot figure out (perl(RRDp) & peral(RRDs)).  Is this the place to
> > > report?  Is it my mistake?
> > 
> > I figured it out.  Updating rrdtool requires perl-rrdtool be added to
> > the includepkgs.
> 
> And, if memory serves, rrdtool-perl, if extras is used.  (perl(RRDs)
> was originally split off into perl-rrdtool, then the subpackage was
> renamed to rrdtool-perl.)

Which of course is silly. But they like their little rules that make 
exceptions to exceptions. And then of course anyone else is not complying 
to their rules :) Sigh...

It was decided to use lowercase for RPMs, but still some people manage to 
add packages with mixed case and one wonders: why ?

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]