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Re: RPM clobbers files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Wed Nov 6 16:21:23 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:18:45 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199611062111.QAA28938@tristan.redhat.com> from "Michael K. Johnson" at Nov 6, 96 04:11:53 pm
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Michael K. Johnson wrote:
>
>
> Tim Baverstock writes:
> >My obfuscation: I meant in an .rpmsave. `Preserved' as in `pickled'. :)
>
> :-)
>
> And when joe user has (for instance) installed some beta software
> directly from tarballs because RPMS aren't yet available (say, a
> new version of XFree86) and then upgrades to the real thing via
> rpm, it might suddenly use up an extra 100 MB of disk space not
> available on the partition in question in .rpmsave files. I can
> imagine the angry, acid commentary we would get in such a case,
> and I shudder to think about it...
Obviouysly, it would query the user before copying files. (maybe a
size threshold.. anything over 500k is querried)
I think this would be really useful... especially in the example that
Donnie gave. Some cracker replaces /bin/bash.. you never did an rpm
-V, but the upgrade catches it. You suddently realize you've been
broken into.
--
-Otto
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