I’m totally going down the rabbit hole this morning…
- I need to test an rpm package.
- The host in the cloud can’t access the QA yum repository.
- So I download the package to my work laptop, copy it to the cloud host, and try to install it locally.
- Of course, it has dependencies
- I try to download the dependencies too and copy them over to the cloud.
- It looks like there is a cyclic dependency.
- Screw rpm -i, let’s try to get yum to work so it can get the dependencies for me.
- I should set up a local mirror of the QA yum repository.
- I try to use wget to mirror the QA yum repo.
- wget fails because some library doesn’t work.
- I try to uninstall wget, but it fails because of permissions.
- I fix the permissions and uninstall wgett.
- I tell it to re-install wget, but now it needs to update Homebrew.
- Now it’s running make.
40 minutes later, and it’s still building.
Then I try to blog about it, but this WordPress blog can’t connect to its database. Apparently, 1&1 has silently changed the database hostname. Thanks!
At least that is (obviously) fixed now.
