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
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