[geeks] Solaris 9/x86 Performance

[Kurt Huhn]

Frank Van Damme <frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 19:38, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > I suffer daily.  Every piece of commercial software in an RPM package,
> > that fails with "/bin/sh not installed" makes me want to shoot myself in
> > the face with a signal cannon.  DB2 comes to mind.
> 
> I thought the lsb said that a basic shell should always be present there
> (mostly it's a link to /bin/bash)
> 

Ah!  That's were the troubles occur.  It *is* there, but the RPM package
doesn't know it for some reason - I suspect because there isn't a package
that explicitly contains /bin/sh.

> 
> Yeah, sure... and you never know what you break if you upgrade
> something... The total debian distro is 8800 packages, of which I have
> installed over 700... You want to compile all that?
> 

Ugh...

By base system I mean - the system, the compiler, and whatever tools you
need.  When installing Apache, for instance, I always compile.  When
installing PHP, I always compile.  There are things that I won't compile,
like solitare or bash.  I believe that compiling server software with the
options you need and streamlining it makes sense, but there is a limit to
what make sense for even the most hardcore geeks.

-- 
Kurt
kurt at k-huhn.com