Re: Auto. security upgrades
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:59:35AM +0200, arto.astala@nokia.com wrote:
> I'm not sure removing a package on hold is a good thing,
> after all the admin places it on hold as a specific action
> to indicate that normal package management should not
> touch it until the admin decides otherwise.
>
> Maybe, if a prompt could be arranged...
> It should default to leaving the package on hold, however.
>
Well, there are two problems :
1) It's much more difficult to change the internals of dpkg than to use some
tricks in order to implement these "security updates". So, with my proposal,
I'm not quite sure that a prompt would be in some way feasible ;
2) You're right about the primacy of the admin's decisions. But perhaps the
solution proposed is not a problem because a package tagged "hold" would be
simply ignored, whether there are conflicts or not.
Cheers,
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