[1330] in RedHat Linux List
RPM package locking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger McCarty)
Sun Oct 27 19:44:18 1996
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:40:50 -0800
From: Roger McCarty <mccartyr@interramp.com>
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Is it possible (I don't see it if it is) to *lock* a
package thus preventing it from inadvertent erasure?
I'd like to protect my system from myself and avoid
problems due to the likes of ...
rpm -e SysVinit-2.62-1
It strikes me odd that this feature does not already exist.
Surely I'm just overlooking it.
If it does not exist, I'd like to request it from
RedHat.
I'd like to *lock* my base system & even possibly do some
housekeeping to clean things up periodically:
rpm -e `rpm -qa` This would erase anything not *locked*.
rpm -e would not erase *locked* packages, but would only
issue a warning message.
What do you think?
Roger
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