[ale] DU help?! DARWIN AWARD

[James P. Kinney III]

Is it possible to nominate oneself prehumously for a Darwin Award? Is
this an award one would _truly_ want to request?

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Even using RHN and RedCarpet, it is very possible to fill up a drive on
downloads.

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:09, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> Doh! I forgot that this install of 7.2 was the one that I was trying to 
> update using all of the rpms from the 7.3 CD. I put them there myself - 
> 
> The update experiment did not work, instead I settle for a combination of RHN 
> and RedCarpet. Thanks for your help.
> 
> -- 
> Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
> Drew Brown
> http://www.ChangingLINKS.com
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 14 August 2002 13:52, you wrote:
> > ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > > Thanks Geoffrey - I love you, man.
> > > I am thinking my /etc/rpm directory is way too big. I used the RedHat
> > > Network AND RedCarpet to update my computer. My guess is that all of that
> > > updating caused tons of RPMs to be dumped into /etc/rpm and not deleted.
> > > Can I delete the RPMs in the /etc/rpm directory safely?
> >
> > I've got both Mandrake and Red Hat installed on two different systems.
> > Neither one has rpm files in the /etc/rpm directory.  The only thing
> > there is a single file (macros on Mandrake and macros.cdb on Red Hat)
> > Both are relatively recent installs 8.0 and 7.3 respectively.
> >
> > I don't know why the rpms are in there.  If you've already installed
> > them I don't see why you would need them any longer.
> >
> > You might post a question to the list inquiring how they ended up there,
> > I don't have a clue.
> >
> > > 1	/etc/sysconfig
> > > 1	/etc/X11
> > > 1	/etc/profile.d
> > > 1	/etc/opt
> > > 1	/etc/skel
> > > 1	/etc/xinetd.d
> > > 1	/etc/rc.d
> > > 1	/etc/default
> > > 1212	/etc/rpm
> 
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