https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329702#c20
--- Comment #20 from Richard Creighton 2007-11-23 15:08:55 MST ---
This "FIXED" is totally bogus. The error clearly states that this bug is
against the 'yast2-repair module broken' according to the Summary. The API
that calls it in the GM release is also broken on the DVD. What they fixed was
the call to the API and they did NOT release anything that addressed the fact
that until you have a successful install, their 'fix' isn't available because
you have no way to invoke it unless you use another distro or if you are lucky,
an earlier version of SuSE that hopefully still works. THEN, this fix would
call the yast2-repair module, WHICH IS STILL BROKEN so much of what you would
use a repair program for simply won't work properly even with this patch that
you can't use off the broken DVD. Some parts of the repair module do work, but
major portions are STILL broken and as of this moment, unresolved. So, they
closed (resolved-fixed) this bug because they came up with a patch you can
download once you sucessfully install 10.3 and don't really need the DVD repair
program anyhow. Using other words, SEMANTICS not solutions to the underlying
problems. Read back to comments 2 or 3 or so and you will see the suggested
fix was vetoed by 'the boss' in favor of waiting until version 11.0. It costs
little or nothing to delete a bad ISO image on the servers and replace it with
a fixed version that can be burned by paying and non-paying user/customers
alike, but for a reason I can't fathom, that rational course of action was
rejected. Now, the world knows that 10.3 GM is broken as distributed and
worse, the attitude is 'live with it'.
Don't get me wrong, I love SuSE, What I don't love is continuing to make bad
decisions and sacrifice quality for expediency. Version 10.3 is arguably the
best version yet in many ways, but the big purple wart on the end of its' nose
is VERY evident.
Richard
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