On 01/24/2014 01:39 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Adam Williamson wrote:
> Even if we can do it on the mirrors, we have no way to 'recall' a
> package from systems where it's already been installed (of course in the
> current case that wouldn't have worked anyway, but we're discussing the
> generic case here).
Crazy idea of the day: Maybe our update tools should default to distro-sync
rather than update?
No, for 2 reasons:
a) This would blow away all installed packages, which aren't available
in permanently enabled repos.
Most common such case is having selectively installed packages from
updates-testing, because users are facing problems with these packages'
nominal versions.
b) A much more common packaging bug class than the SELinux-case are
packages, which can not be uninstalled or downgraded or not be
downgraded properly. Classic such cases are packages with defective
rpm-scriptlets or with scriptlet which perform persistent changes.
Ralf