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RE: Yum install Cirrus, or "architects" and the Peter Principle
Sorry if I wasn't explicit enough, though some here did correctly surmise the WTF. And that is, that there was no way that there was going to be any such package available through yum, as it was a proprietary mashup of busybox, freenas, & custom code by the microprocessor company, especially for this prototype embedded device.
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Yum install Cirrus, or "architects" and the Peter Principle
I've come to the conclusion that all so-called architects have "risen to their level of incompetence" as per the Peter Principle.
As a contractor I've developed a web app to run on an embedded device. There's lots of proprietary software on the device developed by the company who manufactured the microprocessor.
After initial delivery of the first phase of the project I've been tasked with getting the web app to additionally run in a non production environment, as the manufacturer of the embedded device often leaves us without the actual hardware, as there are only a few prototypes, and the client has dibs on most if not all of them.
The underlying operating system kernel is Linux, with "busybox" utilities, and "freenas" server software, not atypical on an embedded device. The microprocessor company in turn built an API on top of these utilities, and the web UI interfaces with this API. Some of their API is just a thin wrapper over the busybox utilities, but some of it customized and proprietary.
There were some issues in getting our Linux VMWare image configured as similarly to the embedded device as possible. The delivery manager suggested I get the help of their senior architect, that he could "help with anything".
He sits at my workstation where the VMWare is running, and first googles for the name of the microprocessor company. For arguments sake let's say it's Cirrus, though it actually isn't. He asks me what they do, and I tell him, they are a microprocessor company, he apparently doesn't believe me, and googles anyway, only to find their home page and how they really are a microprocessor company.
He then chides me for not having installed their software on the vmware, and then this is what he types at the command prompt (again, using Cirrus as an example, that's not really the company):
yum install Cirrus