On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:24:10AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > #1 need not be limited to anaconda. It could also be a super special > case that apt, yum and up2date handle because it is extremely rare but > important. There's lots of other special case stuff handled by anaconda. (Installing the gnome-session RPM when upgrading from GNOME 1.x to 2.x is the one that comes to mind most easily.) Maybe there should be some kind of pre-upgrade/post-upgrade scripts which the admin can run manually before/after running apt, yum or up2date. That would be *MUCH* cleaner than putting it straight into apt/yum/up2date. (Maybe I'll try to write these scripts. I may not have time for a few days however.) > #2 triggers MAY not be a bad thing if the implemntation is good, and > unlikely to introduce any security related problem. What specific > concerns do you have about triggers in this case? Speaking for myself and not for Mike: If a user has run "chkconfig xfs off" or the equivalent, and that gets undone by a trigger when XFree86 is replaced by xorg-x11 (e.g. xfs startup is re-enabled), does that count as a security-related problem? That's the closest thing I can think of right now, with my implementation of xorg-x11 triggers (see attachment 98747 to bug 118448). -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>
