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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by salawat on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:05AM (#36891331)
...Funny you bring that up.

I was cobbling together build scripts for a mail system for Raspi/Armbian the last couple weeks. Very similar packaging stuff, but the number of little subtle differences in install/postinstall/prerm/postrm scripts took a generous level of spackling over to get just right.

Hell, once I get everything nailed down, I'm writing test frameworks for my bloody build scripts if you can believe it.

So...uh... Last week?

Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by nerdponx on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:19PM (#36900916)
Fair enough, but I don't think that's a typical experience.