[Mageia-dev] Viviane, automated system to test installer

Sun Aug 28 22:20:27 CEST 2011

On 28 August 2011 20:30, Margot <margot at otfordduckscomputers.co.uk> wrote:
+> I'm not a coder or packager, so didn't understand most of the code,
+> but I enjoy a good puzzle. I think this is the clue in the code:
+>
+> 'users' => [
+>                    {
+>                      'icon' => 'default',
+>                      'realname' => 'Myrddin Wyllt',
+>                      'uid' => undef,
+>                      'groups' => ['dialout'],
+>                      'name' => 'merlin',
+>                      'shell' => '/bin/bash',
+>                      'gid' => undef
+>                    }
+>                  ],
+>
+> Viviane is one of the many names for the Lady of the Lake. Maybe
+> not many Mageia packagers have studied Arthurian legend? :-)
+
+That's for the romanised legend.
+There's no viviane/namue in the welsh/breton legends.
+That's middle age invention when christianizing the pagan legends
+(introduction of the holy grail, downfall by eve as viviane, ...)
+Thus -ENOENT
+
+Though Myrddin Wyllt (Merzhin in breton) does be part of  the original
+legends[1] used by the writers...
+
+[1]  as a old foul man living nude in the cold at top of the trees, being
+      driven mad by the number of deads at battle
+