Not good

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Mon Apr 5 14:40:48 UTC 2004


On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> All rpm tools have this problem, as one of the two big lies in rpm is
>     All-or-nothing behavior when installing packages.
> That lie is true iff packages are perfect. That is very much not the 
> case during
> a development cycle with an importatnt paradigm shift like selinux.

I don't see the selinux policy issues as being any different than, say,

# mount -o remount,ro /usr
# yum update
<massive fun ensues>
#

People have lived with that for years, they'll learn to live with similar
situations due to selinux configs....

later,
chris



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