Friday, November 14th, 2008
We recently started deploying servers with Areca RAID controllers (we had been a long time 3ware purchaser, but recently the cards and the support of them seems to have taken a turn for the worse).
Areca provides a handful of tools for managing their RAID controllers, but leave it to you ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
Sometimes when building rpm packages you will get an rpm that requires a file that it already contains. This seems pretty lame (which it is) but here is an example and a workaround.
Building a package for freepbx we see this output:
rpmbuild -ba freepbx.spec
--------snip-----------------
Provides: config(freepbx) = 2.4.0-0
Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh
Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames)
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