On 20/05/11 16:37, Tim wrote: <snip> > 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. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded Friend of Fedora -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
