[1354] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RPM package locking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sangrey)
Sun Oct 27 22:24:49 1996
To: mccartyr@interramp.com
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Oct 1996 16:40:50 PST."
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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 22:22:29 -0500
From: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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Roger McCarty wrote:
> 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?
>
I see two sides to this.
One side is summed up by asking, "Just how inadvertent does it have to be?" I
mean typing, "rpm -e SysVinit-2.62-1" is pretty explicit, don't you think? At
a certain point ya just have to accept the fact that you're human. And you
just might foul it up. Been there -- done that. Didn't like me for a while.
But that's life. I'm a human -- thank ya very much.
On the other side, as with any system, having rings of authority can be
beneficial. I think it needlessly encumbers rpm to have that sophistication
here. Ummmmm...but I could be wrong -- I'm human ya know.
Perhaps an rpm list of base packages might be handy. However, that does open
up the ole worm cans. For example, is networking essential? Sometimes yes;
sometimes no.
I'd vote for leaving rpm lie in this regard.
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