Antivirus for Fedora 14

[Frank Murphy]

On 20/05/11 16:37, Tim wrote:
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> e.g. If I was to install silly-game.rpm and I saw comments about
> removing kernel(something) in the list of things to do during the
> intall, I'd abort.
>

I think yum*protectbase may do the job there.
so you place "protect=yes",
in the the legit repos

so other rpm\repcannot replace it with similar\updated file.

> (Not that that'd help those who routinely do "yum -y install" without
> due care.)
>
> I think the case that installing a package that generates a file during
> installation, can leave a file that's not owned by the package (as far
> as YUM and RPM databases are concerned).
>

I think in fedora guidelines all files have to be owned by the pkg.
open to correction.

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Frank Murphy
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